Two decades ago on the opposite side of the commonwealth, an inmate being held on murder charges after bodies were unearthed on his Wilkes-Barre property took advantage of a botched repair job and used a rope fashioned from bed sheets to shimmy down from a seventh-floor cell in the Luzerne County prison. Marshalls Service was offering a $7,500 reward for information leading to Burham's capture, and Crime Stoppers was offering $2,000, Bivens said. “He is considered very dangerous, and the public is asked to be vigilant and report anything out of the ordinary,” police said in a Facebook post. Burham is “a self-taught survivalist with military experience and could be potentially holed up in a wooded area,” Bivens said. Law enforcement officials believed Burham was still in the Warren area and had likely changed clothes since he escaped wearing a blue denim coat and orange jail jumpsuit, Bivens told a Saturday news conference.
George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police said Burham was being held in lieu of $1 million bail on kidnapping, burglary and other charges, and Warren police said he was a suspect in a homicide investigation. Michael Burham, 34, escaped from a jail in Warren by climbing on exercise equipment and using bed sheets to escape through a window, authorities said. Authorities from local, state and federal agencies were searching Saturday for an inmate described by police as “very dangerous" who escaped from a jail in northwestern Pennsylvania using bed sheets, officials said. The Broad Street Market, about four blocks from the state Capitol, had in recent years bounced back from decay to become a thriving cultural and community spot.WARREN, Pa.
Harrisburg and other small cities scattered across central Pennsylvania have a long tradition of brick-and-mortar central market houses, where produce from local farms is alongside baked goods, prepared foods, artwork, craft beer and a variety of other things for sale. Harrisburg Mayor Wanda Williams said “the heart of our community was torn apart” by the fire, but she said it will come back “bigger and better than ever.” She and other officials credited city firefighters for their quick work that spared the stone building and also thanked numerous fire departments in the region that helped battle the blaze. The site is believed to be the oldest continuously operated market house in the United States. Officials were also looking for a temporary site where vendors in the brick building could operate their businesses. Josh Shapiro said the building would be rebuilt and normal operations would continue in the stone building. Part of that structure was destroyed, but city officials and Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. He said the blaze has been ruled an accident.Īuthorities said no one was in the building when the fire began. Speaking at a news conference held at the site late Monday afternoon, Harrisburg Fire Chief Brian Enterline said investigators determined the fire started in the ceiling fan that was installed in 2017.
The site housed a stone building and a brick building that had stood for about 145 years, but the brick building was the only one damaged. but was brought under control a short time later. No injuries were reported in the fire at the Broad Street Market in Harrisburg was reported about 1 a.m. HARRISBURG - An electrical malfunction in a ceiling fan sparked a fast-moving fire that severely damaged an historic market building in Pennsylvania's capital city early Monday, authorities said.
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