2nd Alarm Fire - 02/25/14 - McSherrystown, PA

Southeastern Adams Volunteer Emergency Services units were dispatched to 417 North Street in McSherrystown, PA around 1800 hours for a structure fire. The fire began in the basement and traveled up the exterior walls, spreading throughout the attic, according to Fire Chief Tom Lawrence. It took the responding firefighters more than an hour and a half, and a 2nd Alarm assignment, to bring the fire under control.

The fire displaced approximately 11 residents of the duplex apartment building. After investigating the cause and origin and collecting witness statements, Chief Lawrence said that the fire was caused by a boiler malfunction in the basement of the structure. Firefighters were on the scene battling the fire for over four hours in extremely cold temperatures.