Sprinkler system saves PA firehouse. Vernon Central Hose engine heavily damaged.
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Keith Gushard, Meadville Tribune:
“If it hadn’t been for the fire alarm system and the sprinklers, we’d have been in deep trouble,” said Tom Benak, a trustee and an assistant chief with Vernon Central Hose Co.
Late Tuesday night, the lead engine of volunteer fire department was damaged heavily while it was parked inside the department’s station, but firemen were able to get other vehicles out of the building. Fire damage was confined to the 2001 engine/pumper, but there was smoke damage to the other parts of the crew areas of the one-story building.
On Wednesday morning, Kenneth Hamilton, a Pennsylvania State Police fire marshal, ruled the truck blaze accidental due to an electrical wiring malfunction in the crew compartment area behind the driver’s seat.
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