Brush fire damages building, burns acre at former Brandonville Industrial Park property
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL - A Sheppton-Oneida firefighter douses flames at a brush fire in Brandonville on Feb. 22, 2020.
By Kaylee Lindenmuth | [email protected]
BRANDONVILLE – Firefighters from across the Ringtown Valley and Shenandoah area battled a brush fire at the former Brandonville Industrial Park in East Union Township this afternoon.
Crews were dispatched just before 3:00pm to the area of 146 East Spruce Street in the Brandonville section of East Union Township for the reported brush fire.
Firefighters arrived to find the fire burning throughout a field and woodlands at the former industrial park property. Portions of the park were sold last fall, and shortly thereafter, garages and other buildings were built.
Brush trucks, tankers, and engines responded from Sheppton-Oneida, Ringtown Valley, Nuremberg-Weston, and Shenandoah.
Ringtown Valley Fire Chief Joseph Gilbert said property owners at 146 East Spruce in the development had an open fire at the rear of their property which grew out of control.
The fire damaged part of the building on the property and spread throughout the woodlands.
Firefighters had the fire contained within about an hour.
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