SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, Pa. – At 5:18 AM on Thursday, June 27, Schuylkill County 9-1-1 dispatched Fire District 64 (Shenandoah) with District 48 – Station 5 (West End) and Medic 64 to 222 South Jardin Street in Shenandoah for a house fire with entrapment.
Responding crews noticed a header from a distance and requested a ladder be added from Mahanoy City (Washington H&L 48-25) and quickly after that a full second alarm.
Squrt 64-20 arrived on scene to find a working fire in the middle of a row with black smoke pushing from the eaves and heavy fire showing from the rear.
All occupants were now reported to be out of the residence. The squrt began to stretch a line and initiate a primary search of the building.
Engines 64-12 and 64-10 approached the scene and secured water supplies. Second alarm engines 04-19 and 48-12 were directed to the rear, on West Street, and establish a water supply.
A water supply was established with 48-12 and 64-11 and two lines were stretched through a small gap in homes into the connected back yard.
48-25 came up Jardin Street from the south and set up for operations. A crew went to the roof and opened up a vent hole which allowed smoke and steam to pour out.
The fire was knocked down within a few minutes of crews arriving on scene and was placed under control in roughly 30 minutes.
This fire was located just a few doors away from the scene of a fire that destroyed a home January
Radio chatter indicated some of the residents were being transported to the hospital for evaluation of minor injuries. The American Red Cross was requested to assist those displaced residents.
