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Multiple fires sparked along train tracks in county

Sixteen departments responded to multiple fires sparked throughout Butler city and beyond by a train traveling north through the county.

Unionville Volunteer Fire Company and West Sunbury Volunteer Fire Department received a call shortly after 5 p.m. about a brush fire on Henricks Road that was caused by a train, but Nathan Wulff, deputy chief of Unionville Volunteer Fire Company, said more calls began pouring in as the departments arrived at the original scene.

“We had responded to a fire along with West Sunbury,” Wulff said. “It blew up from there. As soon as we realized what was happening, we called the train controllers to have the tracks shut down.”

According to Wulff, the fire caused no injuries and no property damage, but burned large amounts of woods and brush along the route. He said the fires burned the heaviest near tracks by Pinehurst and Henricks roads, but they did not extend past Jamisonville Road in Center Township.

Read more in Sunday's Butler Eagle.

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