CARBON COUNTY, Pa. – Just after 7 AM on Sunday, December 8, Carbon County 9-1-1 sent District 21 (Beaver Meadows) and District 20 (Weatherly) to 38 3rd Street in Beaver Meadows for a reported dwelling fire. Luzerne County 141 Tower 7 (Hazle Twp.) and Medic 11 were also due as was Schuylkill County Engine 49-15 (McAdoo).
Crews arrived to find heavy fire from the rear of a single story ranch home. Engine 21-11 took the address and went to work. The engine company also established a water supply.
An additional engine out of Hazle Township was requested and an engine from West Hazleton and White Haven were placed on standby.
Weatherly Engine secured a secondary water supply as they arrived on scene and two lines were stretched from that engine to the rear of the home.
Hazle Township Tower arrived and laddered the building and ascended for vertical ventilation.
Firefighters were able to bring the flames under control in roughly 45 minutes but the damage was severe. The back rooms of the residence were completely destroyed by the fire.
As firefighters worked on the scene, a plethora of State Troopers arrived on the scene and began to talk to people on the street.
After extensive overhaul, firefighters began to pick up their equipment and return it to their apparatus. Mutual aid units began to clear the scene around 9 AM with Beaver Meadows remaining on the scene.
