Tuesday, February 19, 2013
No one was injured when a fire broke out at a home in Chalfont, but the house was destroyed.
No one was injured but a home was destroyed by a fire in Chalfont on Tuesday. The fire broke out at 209 Hampshire Dr., Chalfont, around 2 p.m. Chalfont Fire Department Chief Dennis McGuire said firefighters arrived to find heavy smoke and fire coming from the home. Firefighters had the blaze out by about 2:30 p.m., but the fire had moved fast, wreaking widespread damage. "It was under control pretty fast, but it was a lot of fire," McGuire told Patch. "Structurally, the house looks ok, but the interior is a loss. It's uninhabitable." The fire started in the kitchen area of the home, McGuire said. The owner's son was home when the fire started but was able to escape unharmed, the chief said. The cause of the fire still is under …
Friday, November 9, 2012
PECO reports downed wire as the cause. Repairs will be done in next coupe of hours. Several traffic lights reported to be out of service.
9:30 p.m. Update PECO is reporting power is restored as of 8:45 p.m. The downed wire was in the area of Route 202 and Route 309. Readers reported outages as far as Route 152 and Route 202 in Chalfont, and to past Hatfield Ice on County Line Road in Colmar. There were also outages reported in Montgomery Commons Shopping Center at North Wales Road and Welsh Road in Montgomery Township. 7:41 p.m. Update PECO representative Liz Williamson said a downed wire is the cause of the outage. A location has not be specified. Repairs should be done "within the next couple of hours." Outages are reported in Chalfont Borough and in areas of Hatfield Township. Last updated 7:20 p.m. Patch is monitoring reports of numerous power outages in the North Penn …
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
A fire Wednesday afternoon damaged a Doylestown Township home.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
No one was injured but a home in Doylestown Township was damaged when a fire broke out Wednesday afternoon. A fire was reported at 116 Conestoga Dr. at 1:51 p.m. Heavy black smoke could be seen billowing from the roof of the home and flames were visible when firefighters arrived. Firefighters had the fire under control by 2:13 p.m. Fire companies from Doylestown, Chalfont and Warrington responded to the blaze, as did the Central Bucks Ambulance squad. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Doylestown Township fire marshal Rick Schea and the Bucks County fire marshal are handling the investigation.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
The canteen truck from Doylestown helped provide refreshments to firefighters from several area companies who battled the fire.
No one was injured when flames tore through a house in the 1100 block of Log College Drive in Warminster Thursday afternoon. Warminster Fire Marshal Dan Laurich said his office is investigating the possibility that lightning struck the home just before the fire. Storms were moving through the township at around 4 p.m. "A heard a boom just before I saw the fire trucks," said a neighbor at the scene, who did not wish to have her name published. Arriving firefighters and police reported heavy flames coming from the house. The fire marshal said the residents were home at the time of fire and had escaped from the house, which was later rendered uninhabitable by the blaze. Fire crews used several water lines, including a ladder truck and squirt …
Thursday, July 26, 2012
The fire in a barn in Bedminster Township was quickly extinguished.
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Area firefighters had an unexpected obstacle to face on the way to a fire Thursday night - cows. A report went out around 9:30 p.m. Thursday of a fire in the 100 block of Meadow Lane, near Kellers Church Road in Bedminster Township. Though townships closer to Doylestown have surrendered most of their farmland to housing developments, Bedminster remains happily rural, and is home to many farms and fields. Firefighters heading to the scene of Thursday's blaze had to be "advised to use caution coming up the road due to numerous cows crossing the roadway," according to emergency reports. The fire reportedly ended up being in an front-end loader that had been parked inside a barn at a dairy farm. According to emergency reports, the equipment …
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
The two-alarm fire in the Morrisville section of Falls Township drew a response from across Bucks County.
Firefighters from all parts of Bucks County and several New Jersey communities battled a large blaze at SIMS Metal Management in the Morrisville section of Falls Township Tuesday, working well into the evening. One employee of the metal recycling yard on Steel Road suffered minor smoke inhalation injuries but refused to be taken to the hospital, Falls Township Fire Co. Chief Mike McClellan said. Thick black smoke from the blaze could be seen from miles around and was blown by a light wind toward Trenton, N.J. The fire was reported in a 100-foot-long, 35-foot-high pile of stacked vehicles set to be recycled at around 3:35 p.m., McClellan said. When the chief left his home to respond to the call, smoke from the fire could be seen from his …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Lightning strike blamed for 3-alarm fire at Bristol Township Dow Plant.
UPDATED 1:21 P.M. A lightning strike is to blame for a massive three-alarm blaze at the Dow Chemical facility at Route 413 and State Road in Croydon that destroyed two large tanks that held chemicals used in the manufacturing of acrylic paint products, according to local and county officials. No first responders were injured due to the blaze. But 63-year-old Dave Wintz, a fire police captain with the Bristol Fire Company, left the fire scene after feeling ill and later died of a fatal heart attack shortly before sunrise, Deputy Chief Francis Hufnell said. Firefighters and hazmat teams from Bucks, Montgomery and Burlington County in New Jersey responded shortly after 3:35 a.m. to the blaze and worked with Dow’s in-house emergency response …
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Monday, April 9, 2012
The fire started Monday afternoon in a townhouse neighborhood in New Britain Township
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Monday, April 9, 2012
Firefighters were called Monday afternoon to a fire in a townhouse development in New Britain Township. The blaze started in a two-story home in the 800 block of Long Meadow Drive, according to emergency reports. The neighborhood entrance is off of Schoolhouse Road. Firefighters had the fire under control by about 2 p.m.; no one was injured in the fire. The cause of the blaze is under investigation.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Volunteers handed out batteries for smoke detectors and fire safety tips.
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Saturday, November 19, 2011
Red Cross volunteers on Saturday returned to the neighborhood where a late September fire killed a Buckingham woman, destroyed two homes and damaged two others. Carol McKissock, 66, was injured in the fire that started on Sept. 29 at her home on Milords Lane. She was treated at Temple University’s burn unit, but died Oct. 16 from her injuries. The fire destroyed McKissock’s home and spread to three neighboring houses, destroying one and damaging the two others. Red Cross volunteers walked through McKissock’s neighborhood Saturday morning handing out 9-volt batteries for smoke alarms. Missing smoke detectors or smoke detectors without a working battery are the leading cause of fire deaths, the group said. The Red Cross said it conducts such…
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
She was hurt in the fire that damaged four homes in Buckingham Township last month.
The 66-year-old woman who was severely burned when her home on Milords Lane caught fire has died. Carol Ann McKissock died at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia on Oct. 16. Funeral arrangements were handled privately, according to a notice from the Chiacchio Southview Funeral Home, in South Trenton, NJ. McKissock was burned when her home at 4217 Milords Lane, in Buckingham Township, caught fire on September 29. The fire began shortly before 8 p.m. at McKissock's home, then spread to three nearby homes. More than 100 firefighters from volunteer companies all across Central Bucks County battled the blaze for hours. McKissock's home was destroyed and a second home suffered great damage, while two others suffered more minor damage. A …
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12:27 pm on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Claire, the cause was still under investigation yesterday, and they hadn't officially given a cause, but the chief said it started in the kitchen area. more ›