Big Turnout Thursday for Small Schwenksville Fire

SCHWENKSVILLE PA – A small fire that occurred Thursday (Feb. 2, 2023) shortly after noon, involving a fan inside a third-floor bathroom on the 700 block of Main Street (at top and below) in Schwenksville Borough, attracted plenty of firefighter attention, Lower Frederick Fire Company Chief Tom Gammon V said.

No one was reported injured, and a cause was not announced. Several fire companies and departments – among them Lower Frederick, Perkiomen Township, Skippack, Limerick, and Upper Salford – were called to the scene because the location was an apartment building with several tenants and other commercial uses, the chief noted.

The affected bathroom in one of those apartments generated plenty of smoke, firefighters reported. “Luckily, the tenant was home at the time and was able to make the 9-1-1 call before it became a much bigger issue,” the chief explained.

A hose raised to a third-floor balcony (above) in the building, near the corner of Main Street and Park Avenue, was used to extinguish the fire. Volunteers estimated they remained on the scene for about a hour.

Photos by Ted Hodgins for the Perkiomen Township Fire Company, used with permission