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).
