Surround and drown the best you can. Reporter some 25 buses were destroyed serving the large Parkland School district in lehigh county. The garage burped up. Reporter the garage burned up. It did. Are you sad about it . Yeah. Reporter yeah. And made a big boom. Reporter stephanie lives just yards away. She and her young daughters woke up to the smell of smoke. We heard sounds that sounded like explosions so we wanted to come down here just in case the building would go. Reporter her daughter madison a first grader says she loves school but the fire closed the district friday. The state fire march marshall, state police and federal investigators are searching for a cause. The fire is getting special attention because it gutted a school structure. We got to pull a lot of Metal Aluminum from the building to get it off the tops of the fire shall can do it job report roar the building was pole barn says the district. A simple structure of metal and wooden posts to shield the buses from the
Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. Thanks for joining us. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live in coatesville tonight. Chris the community is mad. Reporter thats right iain. Someone out there is stealing american flags from the streets of coatesville. Some of them taken during the citys july 4th celebration of all nights. Now, Coatesville Police understand they admit its not the crime of the century but it is a crime that has some peoples blood boiling. Kind of felt hurt. Felt slighted and felt like Somebody Just slapped me in the face. Reporter john palowski has good reason to be upset. You would be, too if you saw this. Id rather not say on here what went through my mind. This is not something that coatesville deserves. Reporter Surveillance Video yo shows a man an woman swiping through american flags from the 300 block of lincoln highway, stolen and drug along the street just a couple of hours after july 4th fireworks fireworks. And this is whats left of another flag ripped down
Felt slighted and felt like Somebody Just slapped me in the face. Reporter john palowski has good reason to be upset. You would be, too if you saw this. Id rather not say on here what went through my mind. This is not something that coatesville deserves. Reporter Surveillance Video yo shows a man an woman swiping through american flags from the 300 block of lincoln highway, stolen and drug along the street just a couple of hours after july 4th fireworks fireworks. And this is whats left of another flag ripped down right from the pole last month on of all days flag day. A lot of heart ache. A lot of pain. It makes you come to tears. You work so hard for a city thats great. Reporter City Council Woman marie lawson was part of all volunteer effort two years ago to bring some city spirit back to coatesville by placing 70 flags on the citys main drag every federal holiday. The vfk post 287 donateed 70 of them. Now police want to find those involved in taking the flags saying its more about
To let the investigation take its course. We are doing business as usual here in the city and im continuing to be mayor. Reporter the fbi would not confirm whether these two cases are connected but both mayors have much in common. Both are democrats, both preside over Lehigh Valley cities on the economic rebound and both notably hired Campaign Consultant michael fleck, who sources say recently shuttered his Consulting Firm and left town. Meantime citizens in reading are left asking questions. H anybody was looking up to him and now this is a shock for us. Reporter as this investigation moves forward, we have learned allentowns mayor has suspended his campaign for the United States senate and readings mayor recently lost a primary election to democrat wally scott. Randy gyllenhaal, nbc 10 news. Local politicians weighed in on the raids that rocked both these cities. The state representative had this to say. Reading is having problems. Does it make allentown look better or worse. This is
Substantially longer prison term. He faces a maximum of no less than 80 to no more than 160 years in a state correctional institution. Reporter now right now akhmedov remains in prison and is expected to be sentenced on october 1st. Were live here in center city im dann cuellar channel6 action news. Monica. All right, thank you, dan. Meantime from our delaware news room, police in New Castle County are on the scene of a deadly crash involving a motorcycle. This one happened at the intersection of moores lane and mid field road in new castle. Police say the motorcycle hit the right back of a small sedan turning into the castle hills park land area. The motorcyclist was taken to the hospital but died there. Two people in the car were not injured. New Jersey State Police investigating two tractortrailer accidents in gloucester county, one truck went over a guardrail near route 295 and route 628 in westville. Another tractortrailer was involved in a minor accident about a mile away. No rep