Salem Township, Luzerne County PA, 3rd Alarm Commercial Structure Fire – Nuclear Power Plant 10/28/25

[ExChief-551]

Units dispatched @19:29 to 119 Leslie Lane, Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, in the area of Beech Grove Rd. & Bell Bend Rd., for the reported commercial structure fire, Multi Structure Nuclear Power Plant Complex. Upgraded to a working fire.

LCCC911 – Caller reporting a fire at the hydrogen tank farm near the South Gate with a burn victim @19:30

174-C1 – With the information given and the volatility of the complex, dispatch the 2nd Alarm and 3rd Alarm along with Luzerne County EMA @19:32

Exposures:
1: Similar Unattached
2: Concrete Barrier Wall
3: Similar Attached
4: Similar Unattached

1st Alarm:

Salem Township – 174-E1, 174-SQ, 174-UTL, 174-TKR, 174-C1
SSES – 274-E1
Mocanaqua – 118-E1, 118-E2, 118-UTL, 118-C1
Berwick (Columbia County) – TK-121
Geisinger – MICU-95

2nd Alarm:

Berwick (Columbia County) – E-111, R-122
Lime Ridge (Columbia County) – R-204
Nanticoke City – 158-R
Shickshinny Area EMS – 575-EMS

3rd Alarm:

Bloomsburg (Columbia County) – R-37, TK-42
Summerhill (Columbia County) – E-311
Geisinger (Columbia County) – MICU-90, MICU-92
Luzerne County – EMA-1

 

[kidfrmqns]

Any update on this? I think I'd want to go in the opposite direction of a fire at a nuclear power plant.

 

[ExChief-551]

Sorry forgot to post that. So this is one of those cases that maybe you shouldn't listen to the information provided. There was no fire (kinda) and there was no patient. Now the explosion looked magnificent but was in fact due to the normal process of off venting of the hydrogen tanks by plant personnel.