Harry Saltzgiver, Lewis Strubinger and Horace Strine were killed April 6, 1904, in a fire that destroyed an industrial building in York. This image appeared in the book 'History of the York Fire Department 1776-1976.'
The nine firefighters who died in South Carolina bring to mind the fire in York County's past that exacted the greatest toll on the men battling it.
A blaze at the six-story York Carriage Works building on April 6, 1904, claimed the lives of three firefighters.
Heroic actions saved the lives of two others, as a York Daily Record story from 2004 reports:
Continue reading Deadly York fire: 'There never was a more horrible one'.
