Firefighters battle 2-acre fire in Penn Township
PENN TWP — No one was injured in a shed fire that spread quickly and consumed an estimated two acres of woodlands in the Township.
The fire occurred in the 100 block of Jones Road and was first reported around 5 p.m. Penn Township fire chief Bill Glace estimated that the fire consumed about two acres of mostly wooded area, and also burned some personal property.
“We were there probably an hour and 45 minutes,” Glace said.
Glace said no one was hurt or required transportation to a hospital as a result of this fire.
David Simpson lives next door to the property closest to the blaze. He was storing items in a shed on the property of his next-door neighbor. Simpson said that shed burned to the ground, taking with it his tractor and snowblower.
Simpson said firefighters were able to contain the blaze and save his neighbor’s garage before it, too, went up in flames.
“It didn't spread. It came close to spreading over to my property,” Simpson said. “They stopped it before it got that far.”
Due to the scale of the blaze, fire units were called in from all around, including Penn Township, Evans City, Middlesex Township, Herman, Richland Township, Callery and Saxonburg.
Completely choked by emergency vehicles, Jones Road was closed off to traffic at the intersection of Brownsdale Road for over an hour, until trucks finally left the scene around 7 p.m.
