Saturday, August 24, 2013, Mahanoy City, PA - For the second consecutive weekend a multiple alarm fire struck during an annual fireman's convention. Around 0500 hours a fire broke out at the Washington Hook and Ladder Company on E. Mahanoy Avenue destroying Ladder 457 (1993 Simon-Duplex/LTI), heavily damaging the firehouse, and left a family in the attached dwelling homeless. Many members who battled the fire would later begin preparations to host the Schuylkill County Annual Fireman's Convention Parade hosted by the Citizens Fire Co. No 2 of Mahanoy City.