Torch sparks fire at vacant trailer

By Rob Scott
The Daily Item

October 08, 2008 07:52 am

— NORTHUMBERLAND — Workers at Stasney’s Used Car World accidentally set fire to an abandoned mobile home while they were trying to salvage metal from it Tuesday afternoon.
George Geise, first lieutenant with the Tuckahoe Fire Company in Point Township, said the fire was sparked by a torch the workers were using to cut metal away from the trailer.
Stansey’s is along Route 11, between Northumberland and Danville.
Geise said firefighters from Point Township, Northumberland Hook and Ladder, Northumberland No. 1, Upper Augusta Township and Sunbury fire companies responded and quickly doused the flames, containing the fire to the back wall of the trailer.
No one was injured, and the damage was limited, he said. “I don’t know if you could say it was damaged at all, considering that they were scrapping it. ... It was more like a training exercise than anything, which is how we like it.”
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