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Limerick Fire Department
Pottstown, PA
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13-Year-Old Uses Fireworks To Spark Blaze Damaging 2 Pottstown Homes: PA State Police (
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A teenage boy is accused of using fireworks to start a blaze that damaged two homes in Pottstown, Pennsylvania State Police announced on Monday, Aug. 11. The fire broke out on Walnut Street around 7:10 p.m. on Sunday, June 22, according to the release. First-arriving crews found two homes heavily damaged on the rear side, leading to a large multi-agency response. Pottstown Fire Department was assisted by Sanatoga Fire Company, which sent its squad, engine, and utility units with 16 members to help with fire suppression and overhaul. Quint 58 also covered calls while on standby at Goodwill F…
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$21K Raised For Montco Police Officer's Widow ID'd After Suicide In Township Parking Lot
More than $21,000 has been raised for the widow of a Pennsylvania police officer and New Jersey-trained lawman who died by suicide outside the Upper Providence Township campus, according to a recently verified GoFundMe campaign. Christian Flynn, a full-time Upper Providence Township Police Officer and longtime firefighter with the Limerick Fire Department, and seasonal officer in Sea Isle City in New Jersey, died by suicide outside the municipal campus on Monday evening, June 2, authorities announced. “There was no danger to the public at any time,” Upper Providence police wrote in an…
Lower Merion-Narberth, PA
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Car Crashes Into CVS In Montgomery County
Fire crews responded to the Kugler Road CVS in Limerick on Tuesday, Oct. 3 after a car crashed into the storefront, officials said. First responders cleared broken glass and debris from the area, said the Limerick Fire Department. Photos from the scene showed damage to the brick facade, windows, and entrance vestibule. No injuries were reported by firefighters. An employee told Daily Voice that the store was open again by Wednesday evening, Oct. 4.
Lower Merion-Narberth, PA
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Pottstown Fire Erupts In Flames Near Scene Of Deadly Home Explosion
Firefighters worked the scene of a two-alarm blaze in Pottstown early on Tuesday just steps away from the site of a deadly explosion that killed four children and their great-aunt last year. The two-alarm blaze happened at around 4:15 a.m. on March 21, affecting two empty homes and a "roll-off dumpster," said the Limerick Fire Department's Station 51. Footage from the scene recorded by area resident Antonio Gallardo showed multiple fire companies on Hale Street near the intersection with Jefferson Avenue as smoke billowed from a dumpster. The Gilbertsville company said they were on the…
Lower Merion-Narberth, PA
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Woman, 32, Found Dead At Scene Of Montco Fire: Coroner
Montgomery County officials have released the name of the woman found dead at the scene of a Limerick Township house fire on Tuesday, Dec. 14. Amanda Lynn Cogorno, 32, was found dead on the third floor of a home on the 400 block of Swamp Pike around 11:30 a.m., First Deputy Coroner Alexander Balacki confirmed to Daily Voice. Cogorno's official cause of death is still pending. Fire officials have not identified the cause of the blaze, but cautioned Limerick residents to keep their distance while firefighters battled the flames midday Tuesday. Please use caution on Swamp Pike in Li…
Lower Merion-Narberth, PA
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Driver Injured After Crashing Into Pond In Limerick
A Limerick driver is being treated for injuries he sustained after crashing into a pond Thursday morning, authorities said. Authorities arrived on the scene around 7:50 a.m. to find a red Kia sedan in a pond behind Alderfer Glass Company on West Ridge Pike, according to the Limerick Fire Department. The driver made it out of the car before rescue crews arrived and is being treated for their injuries, authorities said. No further information was available.
Lower Merion-Narberth, PA
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Collegeville Packing Supply Worker Airlifted After Hand Gets Stuck In Machine
A man was airlifted from a packing supply factory after fire crews freed him when his hand became stuck under a roller in a machine Thursday in Collegeville. Firefighters responded to Packaging Corporation Of America on 5 Iron Bridge Drive in Collegeville around 9:40 a.m., where they remained for nearly two hours freeing the man safely, Perkiomen Fire spokesman Ted Hodgins said. The man was airlifted by Jefferson University Hospitals in unknown condition. The Perkiomen Township Fire Company was assisted by Collegeville Fire Company, Trappe Fire Company No. 1, Skippack Fire C…
Bristol, PA
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MontCo Family Matriarch With MS Rescued, Airlifted In Devastating House Fire
Support is surging for a Montgomery County family whose matriarch was airlifted and house destroyed in a devastating weekend fire. More than $49,800 had been raised as of Monday morning for the the Bannerman-Martins on a GoFundMe page following Sunday's blaze. Perkiomen firefighters arrived at the family's two-story home near King Road and Cranberry Boulevard around 2:20 p.m. Tracy was rescued from the second floor of the home and airlifted to Leigh Valley Ceder Crest Hospital. Two other family members, Will and Willie, escaped unharmed, GoFundMe founder Kelly Bot…
