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Unity firefighters received honors for their response to Marguerite mine sinkhole

Lloydsville Volunteer Fire Department member Tom Schultheis shakes hands with Unity Township’s supervisors while receiving an award, along with 75 other first responders, for their efforts in December recovering a woman who fell into a mine sinkhole near the township village of Marguerite. The awards were presented at the supervisors’ Thursday meeting.

When firefighters serving with a Westmoreland County trench rescue team arrived near a Unity restaurant in early December to help search for a woman who had fallen into an abandoned mine sinkhole, it didn’t take long for them to realize that this incident would challenge them in new ways.


Source: The Tribune-Review