LEAF FIRE

WATCH: Chalfont Fire crews fight smoky, smoldering brush fire Tuesday afternoon

The fire was reported on the 600 block of New Galena Road in New Britain.

Photo by James Short.

The fire was reported on the 600 block of New Galena Road in New Britain.

  • Public Safety

Two Chalfont Fire Co. engines were called to a smoky and smoldering leaf and brush fire on the edge of a driveway of a home in New Britain Township Tuesday afternoon.


A faint header of smoke could be seen about two miles out from the fire on the 600 block of New Galena Road around 2:15 p.m., near Limekiln Pike and Creek Road.

Fire crews were still knocking down hot spots and preventing the fire from spreading into woods as of 3 p.m.



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Tony Di Domizio

Tony Di Domizio is the Managing Editor of NorthPennNow, PerkValleyNow, and CentralBucksNow, and a staff writer for WissNow. Email him at tony@northpennnow.com. Tony graduated from Kutztown University, with a degree in English/Professional Writing and Electronic Media. He went on to serve as a reporter and editor for various news organizations, including Lansdale Patch/AOL, The Reporter in Lansdale, Pa., and the weekly Chronicle news editions of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. A fourth-generation Lansdalian, he attended North Penn High School, graduating in 1998. He once interviewed Jesse Spano in the back of a limousine outside North Penn High School.



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