A tragedy has struck an Amish community in northwestern Pennsylvania as an explosion at a schoolhouse set the building on fire this morning – leaving three Amish girls badly burned. (Story updated below)
The Amish school is located in the Spartansburg, Pennsylvania community, and appears to have burned to the ground. The girls were believed to have “filled a lantern with the wrong fuel”. From a brief initial report at GoErie.com:
SPARTANSBURG ― Three girls were flown to a Buffalo hospital with burns suffered in a fire that leveled an Amish schoolhouse in rural Crawford County at about 9:30 a.m. on March 27, authorities said…