Tim Gallagher photo
UPDATE: Tuesday Morning – waiting to hear from my friends. Fire is still burning. NBC10 Philadelphia and other media outlets needs to correct their current coverage as they report this as only Berks County with no mention of Chester County:
“A forest fire is burning at French Creek State Park in Berks County. Nearby homes were evacuated Tuesday morning. 100 acres have burned so far.”
The Pottstown Mercury has updated by saying:
A brush fire that started in the area of Route 345 and Shed Road steadily moved east with Monday’s strong winds and continued into the night as hundreds of personnel worked to knock the blaze down. Black smoke was visible as far away as the Hanover Street Bridge in Pottstown
My friend Si who is out at a camp ground near French Creek told me there is a brush fire spreading across French Creek State Park.He left me a message earlier that said that he and his friend Tim are a couple miles from French Creek and he describes it as a “massive brush fire, with the winds fanning it like crazy…it looks like at least 10 fire companies are responding.”
Tim Gallagher photo
Tim Gallagher photo
My friend has photos and will send them as he is able. I have a few to post now. I am told CBS-3 is in the area now. Again, they are at the camp ground a couple miles from French Creek – near St. Peter’s Village in Warwick Township. He just called again and says the top of the ridge that was smoke before is all aglow in orange. He can see two ridges of fire with a break in between. They see the flash lights of fire fighters in the woods.
Tim Gallagher photo
Here is what the Pottstown Mercury is saying:
(Updated at 6:30 p.m.) Officials have issued a mandatory evacuation for residences along St. Peters Road between North Camp Hill Road and Unionvill Road in North Coventry as a brush fire that began on state parkland spread across parts of Berks and Chester county Monday…..A fire that started as a brush fire in the area of Route 345 and Shed Road has been spreading through the afternoon and now engulfs a large section of state gameland and park land according to witnesses.
WFMZ is reporting:
Forest fire nears fireworks factory; evacuations ordered
Shelter established at Immaculate Conception social hall in Birdsboro
A forest fire in the French Creek State Park has prompted the mandatory evacuations of nearby residents.
The fire was first reported Monday afternoon in the 500 block of Fire Tower Road in Union Twp., Berks Co. Firefighters from several surrounding municipalities have since been called in to help fight the flames.
A 69 News crew on the scene reports that much of the fire is in the wooded area of French Creek, but crews are taking steps to keep it from spreading to the nearby International Fireworks factory at 240 Sycamore Rd.
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oh my god help