Liberty Hose Co. No. 2 - Incident Detail #2717

Truck 22 dispatched class one on the 27-3 box to 482 Klingers Church Road in Lykens Township for a chicken barn on fire. Chief 27 went enroute and had a very large column visible from Gratz and requested the first alarm. Truck 22 responded with 7 and Utility 22 with 2 and 2 additional members responding POV. On arrival of a 2 story 100 foot by 600 foot empty chicken barn with fire thru the roof running the entire building, the truck was assigned aerial master stream operations. They were supplied by Rescue 21 and utilized 7 tankers into two porta tanks with a jet siphon. The Truck flowed water for several hours. Excavating equipment was brought in to remove the tin roof after the building partially collapsed, covering several pockets of fire. The Truck continued operations until released by Command 27.