Fire engulfs building on 7th and Curtin Streets in HarrisburgA car igniting inside an auto shop on 7th Street turned created a complicated firefight after the flames spread to other vehicles and injured one worker.
Enterline said crews immediately had to take a defensive stance, due to part of the roof already collapsing. There are eight to 10 cars in the basement, with tires, fuel and everything else involved in an auto repair shop still burning hours later and his crews unable to get to them, he said. “One car fire is bad inside a building. We got about 8 of them still burning, smoldering inside there,” Enterline said. “We just can’t get control of it.”
Everyone has been cooperating, Enterline said, so he expects to have the full cause of the fire within the coming days.The building is a total loss, he said, and DEP and Dauphin County Hazmat are on scene to address the runoff. There are some “booms,” or physical barriers, being used to redirect some of the water run-off coming from the proper. Railroad tracks are directly behind the building and on the other side of the tracks is a section of Paxton Creek.