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Montgomery County honors hundreds of volunteer firefighters, HAZMAT and county staff after massive SPS Technologies fire in Abington
Summary
County commissioners recognized volunteer fire companies, county HAZMAT and public affairs staff and local business owners after a Feb. 17 fire at SPS Technologies in Abington that involved about 80 responding companies, evacuated 60 employees and produced no fatalities or serious injuries.
Montgomery County commissioners used their March 6 meeting to publicly commend dozens of volunteer firefighters, county hazardous‑materials personnel and local volunteers who responded to a Feb. 17 blaze at SPS Technologies in Abington.
At the meeting the county noted the building involved was about 600,000 square feet and said roughly 80 fire companies from Montgomery, Delaware and Bucks counties assisted in containing the blaze. The county said all 60 SPS employees on site at the time were evacuated and there were “not a single fatality or serious injury.”
The board called the response an extraordinary example of local emergency management and volunteer service. “This was actually one of the largest fires in the history of…
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