A 45-year-old woman died from a fire at her home on the 1900 block of Eighth Avenue early Thursday. Marcy Laird was unconscious when taken out of the house by firefighters who had worked through the blaze to reach her at the back of the second floor. She was taken to UPMC Altoona, where she […]
Eight tenants of an apartment house on the 100 block of Sixth Avenue lost their homes in a fire discovered Wednesday around dawn, when one tenant awoke to the screeching of a detector, then roused the others with help from someone passing by on the street. The 2.5-story, eight-unit apartment house was heavily damaged throughout […]
The city has condemned one of downtown’s iconic buildings after sprinkler heads broke in unheated sections Monday and Tuesday, causing leakage and triggering the discovery of life safety concerns about fire protection, the electrical system and the structure itself. The condemnation of the Gables building as unfit for occupancy has forced the building’s six commercial […]
This is the time of the year when considerable attention is focused on ghosts, goblins, witches riding broomsticks, pumpkins and reliving the longstanding tradi
“If you think there is a fire, your job is to get out of the house,” Rusty Shoenfelt told students Wednesday during a fire safety program at Pleasant Valley