Monday, April 8, 2013
A day after a three alarm fire broke out at the leasing office of Blair Mill Apartments in Horsham, only charred remnants remain and the blaze appears suspicious.
Horsham fire officials are working to determine if Sunday's three alarm fire, which took roughly six hours to completely extinguish was intentionally set, or the result of someone flicking a cigarette butt into a flower bed with fresh mulch. On Monday morning, Horsham Fire Co. Chief Tim Flanagan, when Patch reminded him of last summer's arson at neighboring Montessori Children's House, and dumpster fire at Keith Valley Middle School, a string of garage fires recently and "suspicious" fires dating back to spring 2012 in the same general vicinity, Flanagan acknowledged that he has concerns that Sunday's fire was intentionally set. "It raises a red flag in my head," Flanagan said. "I still have to look at this as an isolated …
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Area fire companies extinguished the second garage fire in less than a week Wednesday night in Horsham.
A fast-moving, heavy fire that tore through a two-car detached garage situated behind the Village Mall in Horsham Wednesday evening appears to have been set, an official told Patch. Horsham Township Fire Marshal George Fida said the fire, which started at 6:45 p.m. at a garage adjacent to a home on Moreland and Summer avenues, looks suspicious. Fida told Patch that the investigation would continue, but he said the garage, which was used for storage space, contained "plenty of plywood," but had no electric source and nothing inside of a combustible nature. For more news and updates about Hatboro and Horsham, subscribe to our free newsletter,"like" us on Facebook or follow @Hatboropatch on Twitter. The garage fire is the second …
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Two fires are believed to have been set outside of two Horsham homes in the early morning hours Tuesday.
Jean DeNardo woke to the sound of rain beating on her window early Tuesday morning. Those soothing sounds soon changed to fear as a "popping noise" literally ignited her backyard shed. "I looked out the window and there was this orange glow," said DeNardo, of Moonflower Road in Horsham. "It went up like a matchbox." The fire in DeNardo's shed, which backs up to Meetinghouse Road, began at about 3 a.m. Tuesday morning, less than 10 minutes after Horsham Township Police and the Horsham Fire Company responded to a "suspicious" 2:51 a.m. fire outside a home in the area of Meetinghouse and County Line roads. No one was injured in either of the fires, according to Horsham Township Fire Marshal George Fida. Both blazes are under investigation, he…
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
A month-long book drive at Keith Valley Middle School netted 1,600 books for Montessori Children's House, which had its 2,000-book library destroyed as a result of an August fire.
The library structure itself may be unusable, but that does not mean book-borrowing is over for the 85 students at the Montessori Children's House in Horsham. Following a fire in August, the school, which educates kids from 18 months to age 6, was left with the charred remains of its library, which had housed 2,000 books. But, in the weeks since, an overwhelming outpouring of support from the community - including Keith Valley Middle School's month-long book drive which netted 1,600 books - has doubled the number of books available for children to check out, Principal Nona Melnick told Patch. "The community has been unbelievable," Melnick said. "People have just opened their hearts." On Wednesday morning, Keith Valley students walked …
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Saturday, April 21, 2012
Several fires broke out early Saturday morning within minutes of each other.
Fire crews from Horsham, Hatboro and Bucks County worked to put out fires in Horsham and neighboring Upper Moreland around 1:45 a.m. Saturday. The handful of fires, which broke out in several locations on Blair Mill Road, are classified as "incendiary," according to Horsham Fire Marshal George Fida. He said on Monday that both Horsham and Upper Moreland officials, as well as the county fire marshal and the state police are investigating the fires. According to 6ABC, the first fire broke out at Blair Mill Apartments, in the 3800 block of Blair Mill Road in Upper Moreland. When crews arrived, they discovered some trash dumpsters and one of the building's laundry rooms ablaze. Around the same time, 6ABC reports that a police officer noticed …
Denise Vaughan-Mauer
6:59 pm on Sunday, April 14, 2013
Here's a thought - maybe people should stop flicking their f*cking cigarette butts on to the d@mned ground. Why do smokers think their butts aren't garbage littering the ground anyway? There are proper ways to dispose of those things and this is exactly why. Inconsiderate and ignorant. more ›