Glass Factory Fire Pictures
A huge fire that severely damaged a historic, commercial building Friday night rekindled Saturday morning causing heavy damages to an attached building with shops and garages.
Seven fire departments responded when the fire was initially reported at 9 p.m. Friday at a large, brick building 103 Hicks Road, which was once a Franklin Glass plant, and four of the departments returned at 8:30 a.m. Saturday when the fire reignited, said Bill Glace, chief of the Penn Township Volunteer Fire Department.
A huge fire that severely damaged a historic, commercial building Friday night rekindled Saturday morning causing heavy damages to an attached building with shops and garages. Seven fire departments responded when the fire was initially reported at 9 p.m. Friday at a large, brick building 103 Hicks Road, which was once a Franklin Glass plant, and four of the departments returned at 8:30 a.m. Saturday when the fire reignited, said Bill Glace, chief of the Penn Township Volunteer Fire Department.
Ashes and wreckage from Friday night's fire at the old glass factory continued to smolder Saturday with small fires reigniting throughout the day.
A burnt engine parts from the workshop destroyed in the second fire Saturday morning.
George Messer looks through the smoldering wreckage of his friends' classic car workshop Saturday. Remnants from the original Friday night fire are believed to have sparked a second fire Saturday morning that destroyed a neighboring workshop space containing a number of classic cars.
Renters of space in the old glass factory stand outside the skeletal remains of the old building Saturday. Tenents gathered to look through rubble of the secondary building that caught fire Saturday morning. Smoldering ashes from the original fire Friday night fire are believed to have sparked the second fire.
Rob Goupil (left) offers Joe Sharon consolation as the friends look over the wreckage of their 'man cave' auto workshop. The two lost a number of classic cars they had been working on, as well as spare parts and tools. Initially spared from the Friday night fire that destroyed the old glass factory in Renfrew, their workshop caught fire Saturday morning, likely from rekindled ashes from the original blaze.
Wreckage from the collapsed roof and interior of the old glass factory that caught fire Friday night.
