Family, friends help clear Connoquenessing Township fire scene
On Saturday, family and friends help clean up the remains of Bud Marra's home after a fire at West Park Manor mobile home park in Connoquenessing Township on Jan. 12. Joseph Ressler/Butler Eagle
Man lost home in Jan. 12 blaze
CONNOQUENESSING TWP — Despite cold temperatures, friends and family gathered to help clean up the site of a fire in the township that destroyed the home of Warren “Bud” Marra last week.
On Wednesday, Marra woke up in his home at West Park Manor mobile home park surrounded by flames. He escaped with only the clothes on his back.
"It was like an eternity compressed into the blink of an eye," Marra said, describing the feeling of waking up to his room on fire Wednesday morning.
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Warren "Bud" Marra, middle, looks at a burnt guitar with James Snow while a team of family and friends help clean up the remains of his home in Connoquenessing Township. on Saturday. "My guitars were my prized possessions," Marra said. His home burned Jan. 12. Joseph Ressler/Butler Eagle
