LAWRENCE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, FIREFIGHTERS WERE kept busy all day on Saturday with a commercial fire that destroyed a large, community social center.
KDKA-TV
The fire began in the kitchen of the Parkstown Restaurant and was discovered as employees were arriving to begin their workday. The owner, who was there also, believes it started in the grill vent. As the alarm was sent to the local fire department, the fire spread into the dining room and grew rapidly, moving into the adjoining cocktail lounge.
Shortly after fire operations began, the blaze breached the firewall separating the restaurant from a bowling alley where it took off. The FD reported a problem with the water supply, mainly a lack of sufficient fire flow, and called in additional tankers from other departments including one from Ohio.
At one point the FD called on a local landscaping company to bring in a backhoe that was used to demolish and remove a portico that connected the restaurant with a 12-unit apartment building, thus eliminating a source of extension and saving the apartments. Altogether at least 17 fire departments operated on the scene. At this time, the fire is not considered to be suspicious.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a REPORT.
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