Billowing smoke and flames filled the Mahanoy City skyline around 12:30 this morning as firefighters from many surrounding communities fought a fast-moving fire and kept it from spreading to other row homes located in the 1100 block of East Pine Street.
"All the firefighters did a great job of stopping the fire before it claimed the entire block," one witness to the fire said.
The fire displaced four families, 15 people, living from 1113 to 1119 E. Pine St.
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