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The fire that sent Shaun McCollum to the hospital to be treated for burns and smoke inhalation, after a fire broke out in his garage behind his house, at 1510, Catherine St., on March 11, was accidentally driven, according to the fire chief of Sam Aungst. Careless burning in a wooden burner sparked the fire, August said. McCollum was in the garage at the time and ran to warn his girlfriend to call 911, investigators told them he was injured when he fled back to the burning building to remove one of the two vehicles in the garage, said the girlfriend of a sun reporter on the spot. Aungst estimated damage to about $ 40,000.

A fire on Saturday after -mies that caused minor damage to a porch at 815 Brandon Place in the city remains under the investigation, Aungst said. The firefighters rushed to the scene around 1:15 pm, after a neighbor heard what sounds like an explosion, investigators said. The fire, which did not expand in the house, was extinguished in a few minutes, said Aungst.

Another fire of the city – this one at 314 locust ST, which moved eight tenants on January 9 – remains under the investigation, said August.

As for another investigation, CPL. Nathan Birth, a marshal of the state police firefighters, decided that the fire on Saturday afternoon at 45 Broad St. From Hughesville it was accidental, caused by a barbecue on the back bridge. Five people were relocated to fire and stayed with friends. Among the numerous voluntary firefighters who have assisted Hughesville were the Muncy Area.

The cause of a fire that has widely damaged a house at 6097 Pleasant Valley Road from Eldred Township, on March 26, leaving another family of five homeless people, remains under the investigation.

Five months after a two-alarm fire, the Calvary Baptist Church from 42 Washington Boulevard in the city, was largely damaged, a large part of the investigation-being managed by the Marshal of State Fire-Marshal. While the investigation is ongoing, the investigators did not comment on the origin or cause of the fire, which broke out around 8:10 pm on October 23 and led to at least $ 100,000.

From the fire, the congregation of the church held worship services at the central Baptist church at the seventh and the memorial paths in the city. “The support of the central Baptist was phenomenal,” said Woodary, the pastor of Calvary Baptist on Tuesday afternoon.

He hopes that his congregation will worship again on Washington Boulevard until next month in the church education building, which is related to the sanctuary, but has not been damaged by the fire.