Crews battle fire at Reading Anthracite building

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Post by kcarr » Fri. Mar. 30, 2018 10:20 pm

I just saw this on our local Allentown WFMZ CH 69 News

Crews battle fire at Reading Anthracite building:
http://www.wfmz.com/news/poconos-coal/crews-battl ... /723242255

Don't know yet how it started.
Hope fire is completely out.
Ken

 
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Post by lsayre » Sat. Mar. 31, 2018 4:36 am

Glad to here that there were no injures.


 
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Post by Freddy » Sat. Mar. 31, 2018 5:51 am

I agree....any fire with no injuries is as good as a fire gets. I hope there wasn't too much damage.

 
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Post by gaw » Sat. Mar. 31, 2018 6:28 am

This report says it started on a conveyor belt.

http://wnep.com/2018/03/30/massive-flames-rip-thr ... ll-county/

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