POTTSTOWN, PA – A small plane crashed at the end of the runway upon landing at Pottstown Municipal Airport Wednesday afternoon.
Pottstown Police along with the Pottstown Fire Department responded to the airport for a report of a crash around 4 p.m.
A propeller-powered monoplane was found with its nose down in the grass beyond the runway on the western side of the airport.
Pottstown Police Chief Rick Drumheller said airport safety crews responded to the scene first.
POTTSTOWN — Sunday was far from a day of rest for area firefighters after two fires broke out, gutting two homes and damaging another.
The first fire occurred around 7 a.m. in a twin home building in Union Alley at the 300 block of Evans Street.
According to Pottstown Fire Chief Richard Lengel, the fire was sparked by someone cooking on a stove. He said the building was a loss.
No one was injured but 16 people were displaced by the blaze.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURTHOUSE — A onetime homeless man is now residing in a jail cell after he admitted to starting a fire inside a vacant Pottstown apartment that resulted in a response from Pottstown fire officials.
Brian Jay Staub, 38, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 11 ½-to-23 months in the county jail after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of arson endangering property in connection with the March fire at an apartment in the 400 block of Manatawny Street.
Judge William R. Carpenter, who accepted a plea agreement in the case, also ordered Staub to complete four years’ probation after he’s paroled from jail. The judge also ordered Staub to complete any drug or alcohol treatment that might be recommended by probation officials.
Staub, who court records indicate once listed an address in the 300 block of Chestnut Street in Pottstown, also must pay $1,000 restitution to Spring Hill Realty Inc., of Harleysville, which owned the property.
POTTSTOWN — Twenty-six people were forced from their homes after a fire at the Yorkshire Apartments left their building uninhabitable Saturday night.
Shortly after 7 p.m., the Pottstown Fire Department was dispatched to a fire at the apartments on the 500 block of North York Street.
Pottstown Fire Chief Richard Lengel said the fire was in the wall of a second floor apartment.
“It was an electrical problem in the wall,” he said.
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(Updated at 3 p.m.) POTTSTOWN, PA — A borough woman was arrested for setting fire to her own home Sunday night after an argument with her domestic partner over parenting techniques with their children caused the police to be called.
Cora Lee Sharp, 48, is charged with arson after starting a fire in the kitchen of the home the couple and their two adopted children share on the 900 block of Spruce Street, according to the Pottstown Police.
The Pottstown Fire Department was dispatched to the residence around 9:06 p.m. Sunday and found multiple fires burning on the property, said Fire Chief Richard Lengel.
After 22 minutes, the fires, which were isolated to Sharp’s property, were extinguished.
We were without power for about four hours this afternoon when a semi, coming up Hale Street (never a good idea), tried to make a left hand turn on Mineral Street and took out five utility poles. Above/below are some pictures from the scene. Took us out of commission all afternoon, on a good writing day….grrrrrr.
One of the firemen on duty said he lives on Grant Street and the power flickered there shortly before he got the call about the accident. It is amazing how little one can do in this day and age without electricity. Many thanks to PECO for restoring our power! Also many thanks to Pottstown police, fire and rescue workers for promptly arriving on the scene!
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