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APPARATUS IN ACTION
Chaplain’s Corner
Pastor Fernando Villicana
I recently came across this story, it was told by “Dear Abby” in a response to someone’s question.
A young man from a wealthy family was about to graduate from high school. It was the custom in that affluent neighborhood for the parents to give the graduate an automobile. "Bill’ and his father had spent months looking at cars, and the week before graduation, they found the perfect car.
On the eve of his graduation, his father handed him a gift wrapped Bible. Bill was so angry that he threw the Bible down and stormed out of the house.
He and his father never saw each other again. It was the news of his father’s death that brought Bill home again.
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As he sat one night going through his father’s possessions that he was to inherit, he come across the Bible his father had given him.
He brushed away the dust and opened it to find a cashier’s check, dated the day of his graduation - in the exact amount of the car they had chosen together.
As I thought about this story, I couldn’t help but wonder how many people in this world have done the same thing to God. Literally tossed aside a wonderful promise, because they didn’t understand it, or they didn’t believe that it was possible.
In our world, we are taught that; “if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is.” So many of us have been taken in by “empty promises,” that we are leery of anything or anyone that tells us we can have something for nothing. We say: “The world simply doesn’t work that way.”
But, you know what - God does - God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
The truth of the matter is, the world is full of empty promises. We watch TV, and the advertisements tell us that we can be happy, sexy, rich, or famous, if we only purchase a certain product. It doesn’t take long before we have been fooled enough to know that the world’s promises are full of emptiness. But, God is different. Instead of promises full of emptiness, on Easter, he gave us emptiness that is full of promise
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West Hazleton Weis Market Fire Reaches Fourth-Alarm
LUZERNE COUNTY, PA - At 9:20 P.M. on Monday, December 6, 2021, Luzerne County 9-1-1 dispatched a first-alarm assignment to the Weis Market grocery store at 100 Weis Lane in West Hazleton for a possible building fire.
West Hazleton crews were advised of a call reporting a fire on the roof. 183 Car, 183 Engine 1 and Chief 4 arrived on the scene to find nothing showing. Command advised nothing visible after conducting a 360, but there was a haze in the building.
Engine 1 and 183 Truck were sent to the 'B/C' corner to go to the roof and evaluate the situation. At 9:40 P.M., the crew reported a working fire on the roof and requested a hand line to extinguish the fire. Command requested the engine lay in to the ladder on the 'C' side.
As a cold front was moving through the area, winds really began to pick up. Wind gusts peaked over 35MPH right around the time of the fire. While crews were attempting to extinguish the fire, the gusty wind took hold of the flames and rapidly spread the fire across the roof.
Command requested an engine and ladder from Hazleton City Fire 139. The wind continued to spread the fire at an exponential rate, which forced command to pull all units off the roof. A second-alarm was transmitted at 9:52 P.M.
The second-alarm included Hazle Twp. 141, Sugarloaf 177, Freeland 136, Valley Regional 116, Schuylkill Engine 49-15 (McAdoo) and Schuylkill 48 RIT (Mahanoy City). Ladders from Hazle Township, McAdoo and Nuremberg-Weston were also dispatched.
At 9:58 P.M., a third-alarm was transmitted as fire consumed most of the roof of the building. The third-alarm included units from Hazle Township, Freeland and Harwood.
Hazle Township Tower 7 arrived on scene as the third due truck company and was assigned to the 'A' side to set up for master stream operations. 139 Engine 2 was flowing their deck gun onto the roof, but shut down to feed the ladder pipe. 183 and 139 trucks were already flowing their ladder pipes from the 'B/C' comer.
At 10:07 P.M., a fourth-alarm was transmitted to respond to the staging area. The fourth-alarm in-
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eluded Valley Regional 116, Foster Twp. 134, Wright Twp. 189 RIT and Schuylkill Engine 9-10 (Shep- pton-Oneida).
Crews found fire appearing to be spreading into the 'B' exposure Pet Smart. Firefighters made access to Pet Smart to check for extension and evacuate the animals into the back of a Greater Hazleton ambulance.
McAdoo Ladder 49-22 arrived with Sugarloaf 177 Engine and both were sent to the 'A' side for ladder pipe operations. 177 Engine laid LDH from a hydrant on the 'D' side and supplied the scene.
Nuremberg Ladder 19-20 was set up next to McAdoo and also began to flow water. Freeland Tmck 136 was sent to the 'C/D' comer for master stream ops while Harwood 241 Engine laid supply line from across the parking lot where 116 Engine had hooked up to a hydrant.
While all of the ladders were operating to knock down the fire, crews began to experience water shortages from their water supplies. 136 Engine was directed to a hydrant across Route 93 to secure additional supply. That crew reported the hydrant to be dry. McAdoo Tanker 49-30 laid hundreds of feet of LDH down Route 93 to the area of Valle High Drive- In to hook up to another hydrant.
After about an hour of pouring water on the building via master streams, the ladders were shut down and two crews accessed the building to check the interior. The crews reported the interior looked pretty good with the exception of the 'A' side where smoke was still pushing. The 'A' side ladder companies were put back into operation to drown out the fire.
The bulk of the fire was knocked down after 11:00 RM. Rehab units from L&L Fire Company (Carbon County) and Danville (Montour County) were dispatched to the scene. A State Police Fire Marshal was requested to investigate the cause of the fire.
Crews began to clear up from the scene after midnight, with West Hazleton crews remaining on scene for most of the overnight hours.
- JC KRIESHER
JC KRIESHER Flames consume the roof of the Weis Market in West Hazleton. Four alarms plus special calls were requested to the scene before the fire was brought under control.
JC KRIESHER Crews from Luzerne, Schuylkill, Carbon and Montour Counties responded to this multiple-alarm fire.
