Fire destroys barn, damages farm silo, out buildings outside Ringtown
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL - Ringtown Valley Fire Chief Joseph Gilbert walks past the burning remains of a barn on Pine Swamp Road in Union Township on May 14, 2020.
UNION TWP. – Fire ripped through a barn and damaged several other outbuildings on a farm in rural Ringtown Thursday afternoon.
Firefighters from across the Ringtown, Shenandoah, and Mahanoy valleys were called to the Lindner farm on Pine Swamp Road just before 6:00pm for a reported structure fire.
Smoke could be seen billowing from the area from Ringtown Borough and Locust Mountain, leading Ringtown Valley Fire Chief Joseph Gilbert to declare a working fire en route.
When firefighters arrived, the barn was fully-involved and fire had spread to another outbuilding and a silo.
“When we got here [the barn] was burning, [the shed] was burning, we didn’t know if anything was in the silo so we had Columbia [of Shenandoah] hitting the silo to keep it cool,” Gilbert told the Sentinel.
Gilbert said no injuries were reported.
A second alarm and tanker task force were called to the scene, drawing firefighters from as far as Mount Carmel Township in Northumberland County and Locust Township in Columbia County to the scene.
The fire was declared under control just before 7:00pm, and all units were clear of the scene within about an hour.
Firefighters from Ringtown Valley, Sheppton-Oneida, Nuremberg-Weston, Shenandoah’s Columbia, Polish American, and Rescue Hook and Ladder fire companies, Mahanoy City’s West End and Good American fire companies, Girardville’s Rangers, Ryan Township, Shenandoah Heights, William Penn, Aristes, Beaverdale, Valley Chemical of Numidia, Fountain Springs, and more responded to the scene along with Shenandoah Ambulance.
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