December 25, 2009

• BAD FIRE (Newest infor about the fire at the bottom)

   PRAY!!!! Bad fire near our house. Possible person trapped inside. It is really bad lots of tankers and engines etc…shutting down highway etc. PRAY!!!!
  
  There’s a fire at the JR Cycle Shop in Ephrata Township. That’s on Route 322, near the Wal-Mart. Route 322 is closed right now.

  Update: Shortly before 5:30 p.m., units were dispatched to JR’s Cycle Shop at 840 E. Main St. in Ephrata Township for a report of a fire with possible entrapment.

  When firefighters arrived, the front of the building was enveloped in heavy flames and smoke, Pioneer Deputy Chief Vernon Schmuck said.

  The owner of the business, who was thought to have possibly been inside, was quickly accounted for, he said.

  Fire crews mounted an exterior attack and attempted to battle the blaze from the unaffected rear of the building, Schmuck said.

  “(But) as we were setting up it kept feeding, and we just couldn’t get ahead of it,” he said.

  Schmuck said the building appears to be a total loss, but he could not provide a damage estimate late Wednesday. The cause of the fire was under investigation.

  About 100 firefighters from seven departments battled the blaze in below-freezing temperatures. Haz-mat and EMS units also were at the scene.

  Here is a picture that we took of it today

   

  East End Speed and JR Cycle Shop were completely destroyed in the fire

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