Everyone got out safely when a house, garage and other structures on a Dauphin County property caught fire Tuesday afternoon.
Hershey Volunteer Fire Department Public Information Officer David Sassaman said crews first got a call about the fire at 2:45 p.m. for a home in the 3600 block of Old Hershey Road in Elizabethtown.
The first units on scene found a heavily involved structure, with additional fire venting from a propane tank next to the home.
The home, the garage, a shed, a gazebo and some vehicles on the property all sustained significant damage, but Sassaman was not able to give an estimate on the costs as of Tuesday evening.
He could not say where the fire originated, saying the fire was still under investigation. He was not certain how many people were displaced by the fire.
Sassaman said they got water on the fire as quickly as possible, but also had to contain the flames that were reaching out from each side of the building. He was not sure of the level of damage to the homes on either side.
With the home being in a more rural area, the lack of any nearby fire hydrants led to challenges in fighting the multi-faceted fire. Sassaman said they had to rely on tankers trucks to get water to the home, which they had on scene immediately, but then were cycling through for the hours-long process.
Another facet of that was that crews had to ensure the propane tank next to the home stayed cool. This meant that one firefighter had a hose focused on the tank through the firefight, something Sassaman said used a lot of water on its own.
“It’s a challenge but we manned that challenge and overcame what we needed to do,” he said. They had a rotation with four tankers to make sure they had a good water supply.
“They did a very good job in difficult conditions,” Sassaman said of the crews from Dauphin, Lebanon and Lancaster counties who all assisted with the fire.
Salvation Army Emergency Disaster Services also responded to the scene.
Sassaman said crews would be working on the scene for several more hours.
Old Hershey Road was closed from Route 743 until Round Top Road for several hours.
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