PLYMOUTH, PA - Just before 8:00 A.M. on November 4th, the Plymouth structure fire box was dispatched for a reported fire with multiple calls on it. While enroute, a large header could be seen from two miles away. When crews arrived, two houses were heavily involved, the siding of a third house was melting, and one of the heavily involved houses had confirmed entrapment.

Plymouth Fire immediately called for a second-alarm, along with the Luzerne County Tanker Task Force. Shorty after that, they called for a 3rd alarm for more manpower. Crews worked as fast as they could to rescue the people entrapped in the one house. The fire was raging so intensely and the structures' conditions were deteriorating so fast, that only one person was pulled from the house and taken to the hospital.

Firefighters were evacuated and surround-and-drown operations went into affect. Once conditions got somewhat better, firefighters used ground ladders to look inside the house with entrapment to see if they could locate a second victim. The second victim was found deceased inside on the second-floor. The coroner and fire marshal were called into the scene.

Firefighters battled multiple safety issues for how destroyed the inside was from a collapsed roof to floors caved in on the second-floor. Firefighters worked hard and carefully to remove the victim. Once the fire was out and overhaul was completed, it left two houses completely destroyed and a third house with siding damage.

The American Red Cross is helping the families who lost everything. The cause of the fire is currently unknown and under investigation by the Pennsylvania State Police Fire Marshal.