LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. – After 2 PM on Wednesday, May 2, Hazle Township Fire 141 was sent to the Eagle Rock Resort for a brush fire. Crews arrived to find a rapidly spreading brush fire near the far end of the Resort moving toward the Humboldt Industrial Park and Interstate 81.
Additional resources were requested to the scene including Forestry, Sheppton-Oneida, Harwood, Valley Regional, Sugarloaf, Freeland, McAdoo, Beaver Meadows and Nuremberg-Weston.
Crews accessed the fire from multiple points in an attempt to bring the fire under control while large plumes of white smoke could be seen going up into the sky.
Forestry requested the air tankers respond from the Hazleton Airport and had them make multiple drops onto the front lines of the fire.
It took firefighters over three hours to bring the fire under control. While returning from this fire, crews were sent to a commercial structure fire in the Industrial Park.
