03.28.08 - Fatal House Fire, 2nd St. Slatington, PA

Friday Afternoon Lehigh County received a call from a woman reporting a fire in her home on Second Street in Slatington and stated she was on the second floor and could not get out. Well, she never did.

An off-duty sergeant from the Walnutport PD and a civilian tried to rescue her but both were confronted by heavy black smoke when they kicked in the front door.

Firefighters discovered her in a room on the second floor when they stepped on her. She was wrapped in blankets on the floor.

At the time of this writing, it is unknown if she had a working smoke detector. Please check your batteries! Smoke detectors do save lives!

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• house
• fire
• slatington
• department
• lehigh
• northampton
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[hamletp]

these guys need to work out a little....slow as shit.

[OneSkiWonder]

What's with the 70's training video music at the beginning and end?

[kernyr6]

@webfire29 haha yeah i agree, what a knot-head

[WEFC43]

@leatherhead13 - you werent there so dont ASSUME anything!!!

[leatherhead13]

haha these guys must not catch that much fire. there skills are horriable, they have no idea how to verticaly ventalate and wtf is the guy in the yellow pants goin he is doin more harm then good. o and get a chain saw it works better then i pick head axe for cutting roofs.

[tweakz20]

who put the fattest guy on roof venting

[ttwepyro]

I live on main street and i saw the fire. It was nasty.

[pilot4life15]

I think these guys need to run a few roof venting drills...

[modawg8k]

No I left the dept. last year after 11 years of service.

[WilliamC24]

Were you involved in the recent quarry diving death? I remember a few of my friends from Northern Lehigh used to go quarry diving. My dad always warned me that the water can be cold, causing hypothermia, and there are hidden rocks under the water, some of which may kill you on impact.