Smokehouse owner Cash Koszela, right, watches yesterday as New
Castle firefighters take control of a blaze that damaged the smokehouse in his
back yard on Lutton Street
By Nancy Lowry, New Castle (PA) News, 2/15/12
NEW
CASTLE, Pa. (AP) –
Firefighters in Pennsylvania have managed to save 200 pounds of
Polish sausage from what they're calling the best-smelling fire they've doused
in years.
The New Castle News reports that firefighters responded about
11:30 a.m. Monday when a 20-by-20-foot smokehouse caught fire in the yard of
Cash Koszela (koh-ZEL'-uh). He's a retired meat cutter who's been smoking his
own sausage for about 30 years.
Firefighters say some grease caught fire when the smokehouse got
too hot - about 300 degrees.
Koszela says it will cost about $3,000 to replace the smokehouse.
It's actually a tin-lined walk-in cooler fed by smoke piped in from a fire pit.
Assistant Fire Chief David Joseph says, "This is definitely
the best-smelling fire we've seen in a long time."
New Castle firefighters saved about 200 pounds of kielbasa from
a blaze in a smokehouse yesterday morning at 817 E. Lutton St.
NOTE:
This is such a charming Pennsylvanian story I
felt a need to post and share it. New
Castle, PA, incidentally figures prominently in the story of the infamous Torso Killer from
the mid-1930s – please see HERE (link).
Another fine case for the BAU. I hate it when real crime is more gruesome than fictional crime. Although, I'm sure that's always the case, since it is real.
ReplyDeleteI used to be an Assistant DA in Brooklyn. Real crime is just awful. Curtis
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