Familiar territory: Vacant buildings burn in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.
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On Wednesday firefighters in McKeesport, Pennsylvania visited a familiar location: Hopkins Alley. I figure it must be familiar to them because it is familiar to me and I don’t live there and haven’t visited McKeesport for a quite a few years.
Last summer we ran pictures of a fire at a duplex in Hopkins Alley that a STATter911.com reader was kind enough to send our way. Click here for the pictures from July 23.
This fire burned that vacant duplex again and another structure. The pictures on this page were taken by David Gregg, Dravosburg VFD.
Here is a description of the fire provided with the pictures:
At 03:36 McKeesport Fire Dept. Station 190, McKeesport Ambulance Station 625 and Police were dispatched to the 400 Block of Hopkins Alley for a reported house fire. Police arrived and confirmed a vacant duplex fully involved and a second vacant endangered. The fire eventually spread to the second house a garage before being brought under control. Other units providing mutual aid: Glassport #1 VFD Station 161and White Oak VFD #1 as well as numerous stand-by companies for station coverage. These structures previously burned in July 2008.
