NEW BRITAIN TOWNSHIP FIRE

Riding mower catches fire Sunday afternoon on Limekiln Pike

The incident occurred on the 100 block of South Limekiln Pike.

Photo by James Short.

  • Public Safety

A riding mower’s engine bay caught fire Sunday afternoon in New Britain Township, disrupting traffic momentarily on South Limekiln Pike to one lane.

According to reports from the scene, the fire call came in at 4:31 p.m. at 107 South Limekiln Pike.

Firefighters from Chalfont Fire Co. were able to connect a fire hose and extinguish the fire on the yellow mower, per reports from the scene.

There were no injuries.

New Britain Township Police assisted at the scene.

    By James Short  

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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 [email protected]. Tony graduated from Kutztown University, under the tutelage of Dr. Matthew Nesvisky and Dr. Heather Thomas, and 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 was born and raised in and around the Borough, including Little Italy, and 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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