Liberty Hose Co. No. 2 - Incident Detail #1350

Fire alarms rang at 2AM for a fire at 325 North Second Street in Lykens. Liberty Hose Company No. 2 responded followed by Wiconisco Fire Company and arrived to find the house engulfed in flames. There was heavy snow on the ground at the time and the hydrants were buried and had to be dug out before connections were made. 13 year old Janice Ramer was killed in the fire. Her father, Ronald Ramer, and her three sisters escaped the fire by jumping from a second floor window into the snow below. The fire had started on the first floor of the house and spread to the neighboring mobile home of Betty Kupp, destroying a bedroom. Shop-n-Play provided food for the firefighters.