Schuylkill County is no stranger to disaster.
Schuylkill County is no stranger to disaster. Protected by volunteers since 1811, residents have faced block-burning conflagrations like the Great Memorial Day Fire of 1945, which consumed sixty-seven buildings in the Mahanoy City Business District, and commercial airplane crashes like United Flight 624 near Ashland, with no survivors. The Red Church propane truck explosion near Orwigsburg caused twelve fatalities, and the Reading Railroad passenger train collision with a gasoline truck in Port Carbon sparked death and destruction, as well as a frantic search for burning money.
Telling these stories with the help of rare and many never-before-seen images, authors and veteran firefighters Michael R. Glore and Michael J. Kitsock revisit some of the region's most harrowing catastrophes.
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978-1-5402-6610-1 (9781540266101)
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Starting as a firefighter in 1986, Mike Glore has held various ranks and administrative offices in the Pottsville Fire Department and served as assistant fire chief of the City of Pottsville, Bureau of Fire, from 2004 to 2007. In 2007, he was hired as
