Pine Street laundry and upstairs tenants evacuated safely
By Andrew Harris, photo provided
Wellsville volunteer firefighters were toned out at 10am on Wednesday after a commercial dryer in a popular Pine Street laundromat on the west side of the village.
Wellsville 502 2nd Assistant Chief Kevin Fleischman took control of the scene and the crew made short work of putting out the fire. Fleischman reported this to the Wellsville Sun shortly after clearing the scene:
“We were met on scene with heavy smoke conditions with fire in one of the dryers inside the structure. On my arrival. The upstairs tenants were all evacuated. All 4 companies arrived together and made quick work of extinguishing the fire, and checking for extension. Damage was minimal. We were assisted with mutual aid from Andover Fire Department Air Truck, Willing Fire, Allentown had an Engine on Standby at Fire Headquarters, Wellsville Ambulance Corps, Wellsville PD, Allegany County Fire Coordinators, and Allegany County 911. Scene was turned over to the building owner.
The entire team did a great job! “
