Fire evacuates Montco nursing home
A blaze broke out at the Towne Manor West in East Norriton Sunday night, forcing firefighters to evacuate the Montgomery County nursing home.
A blaze broke out at the Towne Manor West in East Norriton Sunday night, forcing firefighters to evacuate the Montgomery County nursing home.
The fire started in a corner of the 119-bed facility on the 200 block of East Johnson Highway shortly before 9 p.m., dispatchers said. Emergency workers transported 116 residents onto two air-conditioned SEPTA buses to be taken to a shelter, said a SEPTA spokesman.
East Norriton firefighters were still on the scene at 11 p.m. and could provide no other details.
Sam Wood