Smokehouse Blaze 'Best-Smelling Fire We've Seen In A Long Time': Pennsylvania Firefighters

NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- Firefighters in Pennsylvania have managed to save 200 pounds of Polish sausage from what they're calling the best-smelling fire they've doused in years.

The New Castle News reports that firefighters responded about 11:30 a.m. Monday when a 20-by-20-foot smokehouse caught fire in the yard of Cash Koszela (koh-ZEL'-uh). He's a retired meat cutter who's been smoking his own sausage for about 30 years.

Firefighters say some grease caught fire when the smokehouse got too hot – about 300 degrees.

Koszela says it will cost about $3,000 to replace the smokehouse. It's actually a tin-lined walk-in cooler fed by smoke piped in from a fire pit.

Assistant Fire Chief David Joseph says, "This is definitely the best-smelling fire we've seen in a long time."

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Comments

[Montana 123]

06:07 PM on 02/18/2012

pass the saurkraut!

[Stephen Thorpe]

03:15 AM on 02/18/2012

Wait we had 400 lbs in the smoker?!!!

(check the fridge at the firehouse)

[Jude Arsenault]

06:50 AM on 02/17/2012

bravo,200 lbs of tortured murdered animals and saturated,heart attacking fat!!

[Forever Jung]

10:22 AM on 02/17/2012

TASTY tortured, murdered animals and saturated, heart attacking fat!!

[Jude Arsenault]

12:36 PM on 02/17/2012

and don't forget cholesterol.

[Lauren Green]

04:31 AM on 02/17/2012

I'm curious to know whether the firemen got to keep all the sausages that they saved in the fire. Should be an awesome reward!

Lauren
http://InstanteStore.com

[MyResponsibility]

07:07 PM on 02/16/2012

5 more minutes and the sausage would be ready to eat....that's discipline.

[CR46]

10:10 PM on 02/16/2012

Or they were too stup id to wait the 5 min and have someone go buy some buns :)

[N0NDescript0]

02:29 PM on 02/16/2012

"Firemen save 200 pounds of polish sausage from blazing building."

Oh the innuendo...

[Parthenokinesis]

02:15 PM on 02/16/2012

Perhaps this will lead to new high end restaurant food prep techniques.

[Andy Shick]

12:51 PM on 02/16/2012

Thank God for fire departments. I wonder the following though: If he had lived in a township where you have to pay annual dues for this, and he had not done so, would they have let the smokehouse burn down?

[IrieMoon]

10:01 AM on 02/17/2012

I have lived all over PA (including about 100 miles from New Castle) and never had to pay an annual fee to a fire department before. I doubt the county that New Castle is in charges that fee....personally I feel none of them should.

[Andy Shick]

04:05 PM on 02/17/2012

The ones that do require it are generally volunteer departments that are not funded at all by tax dollars.

[Lovenhugs]

12:33 PM on 02/16/2012

We know what they had for lunch that day!!! LOL

[mike711l]

12:24 PM on 02/16/2012

A real sausage-fest!

[Forever Jung]

11:03 AM on 02/16/2012

That mustard been one of the wurst calls to go on!

[stjoshy]

12:22 AM on 02/17/2012

i dont always fave one liners.. but when i do, i make sure they make me laugh. hahahah that was great

[Marian Bailey]

12:07 PM on 02/17/2012

STJ, I have to agree. It made me laugh out loud.

[ebbjib75]

10:56 AM on 02/16/2012

Can someone pass two down please W/ mustard and Crout?

[LizziePSU]

10:39 AM on 02/16/2012

STORY UPDATE: PA Man Accuses Local Firefighters of Mishandling His Sausage

[ebbjib75]

10:55 AM on 02/16/2012

Is that mishandling OR Manhandling his Sausage?

[LizziePSU]

11:05 AM on 02/16/2012

Awesome, haha!

[rich3324]

10:14 AM on 02/16/2012

keilbasa inferno

[acarioti]

10:08 AM on 02/16/2012

I woulda volunteered for this one!