Metro Harrisburg Fire Photos 2005
Saturday, June 25, 2005 - Fairview Township - Lewisberry Rd
At 1239 hours York County Comm Center dispatched units on the 68 Box to Old York and Lewisberry Roads, just outside New Cumberland Borough, for a plane down. Additional reports indicated a plane into a mobile home with fire. First due companies from Station 68 (Fairview Twp) arrived to find heavy fire from a downed plane and two mobile homes. Command began requesting additional fire and EMS equipment as emergency personnel attended to a survivor of the plane and firefighters began to attack the blaze. The blaze was knocked down in about 45 minutes. Due to the incident itself and the heat many local companies assisted Company 68 including units from Dauphin and Cumberland counties and a crash unit from Harrisburg International Airport. It is believed the small Cessna-type plane was taking off from Capital City Airport, less than 1,000 feet away, when it slammed in between two mobile homes. A third mobile home also suffered fire damage. 2 mobile homes were to be vacant and a third unoccupied at the time of the crash. 3 occupants of the planer perished and the only survivor, that being the pilot, was flown from the scene to burn center. Numerous rehab units were also on scene tending to weary firefighters operating in the stifling 90+ degree heat.