Amish schoolhouse near Spartansburg, PA explodes/burns badly injuring three girls

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Fire destroys Amish schoolhouse in Pa. Three girls flown to hospital

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SPARTANSBURG - Authorities suspect three girls may have filled a lantern with the wrong kind of fuel on the morning of March 27, setting off an explosion and fire inside an Amish schoolhouse in rural Crawford County.

The three girls, whose ages were not immediately known, were flown to a hospital in Buffalo for treatment of burns they suffered in the fire in the 25900 block of Byler Road, said Chris Hughes, chief of the Spartansburg Volunteer Fire Department. Hughes said he believed one of the girls was a teenager and the other two were younger.

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The fire was reported at 9:25 a.m. March 27, according to Crawford County 911. Hughes said it was initially reported that up to seven people may have been inside the school at the time, and a number of ambulance companies were called to the scene. Authorities soon determined only the three girls were injured and were reportedly the only ones inside the school at the time, he said.

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Hughes said the first fire crews arrived on scene to find the schoolhouse fully involved in fire and on the ground. They then learned the injured girls were taken to a house down the street, and that became the main concern of fire officials, he said.

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