Pa. Firefighters Spot House Fire Next to Station
Source The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
March 27--WILKES-BARRE -- City firefighters made quick work of a blaze in a vacant home just yards away from city fire headquarters on East Ross Street.
Firemen saw flames coming through the roof of a two-story home at 68 Gildersleeve St. -- an alley adjacent to the firehouse -- from the second floor of the firehouse just before 9:30 p.m., called it in to Luzerne County 911 and brought a fire engine out of the garage and around the corner, said Assistant Fire Chief Ed Snarski.
"The fire was pretty much contained to an upstairs back room and the (firefighters with) the first engine knocked down all the fire," Snarski said.
The home is owned by the Greek Orthodox Church on East Ross Street and was scheduled for demolition. A fire inspector will try to determine the cause, he said.
"We did see people running out of the alleyway, but we don't know if they were running to tell us about the fire or if they saw what happened. It was three males and they disappeared. It's a pretty popular alleyway," Snarski said.
No one was home in the house next door to the vacant structure and it doesn't appear that home, which is only several feet away from the vacant home, was damaged, he said.
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