# You Want to Do a Good Deed and It Goes Horribly Wrong \[Fire and Fundraiser in Pennsylvania\]

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**Created:** [August 14, 2022, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-to-do-a-good-deed-and-it-goes-horribly-wrong-fire-and-fundraiser-in-pennsylvania/969657 "2022-08-14T20:33:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-to-do-a-good-deed-and-it-goes-horribly-wrong-fire-and-fundraiser-in-pennsylvania/969657/1 "2022-08-14T20:33:17Z")

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Very tragic fire in Pennsylvania:

> **[10 dead, including 3 children, after house fire in Pennsylvania, police say](https://abcnews.go.com/US/dead-unaccounted-house-fire-central-pennsylvania-police/story?id=88008897)**
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> Crews responding to the early-morning fire in Nescopeck would not initially get inside the home due to the flames and heat.

Local restaurant/bar owner decides to hold fundraiser to help the families of those killed:

> **[Benefit honors victims of Nescopeck fire](https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/columbia-county/benefit-in-berwick-honors-victims-of-nescopeck-fire-luzerne-county-columbia-county-lauren-hess-catherine-parri-joel-and-alicia-hess/523-5aa552c0-930e-4ef5-8ff2-43d4b4263f25)**
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> People continue to rally behind a Nescopeck family who lost ten loved ones in a major fire on August 5.

Fundraiser results in more tragedy:

> **[Man charged with 2 counts of homicide after driving car into fundraiser,...](https://abcnews.go.com/US/dead-17-injured-car-crashes-crowd-fundraiser-fire/story?id=88347794)**
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> A local fire company said crews responded to the "mass casualty event."

Note this was about 6 pm, well before sunset–so there is no possibility the driver couldn’t see because of darkness. One victim was someone the car hit; the second was the driver’s mother sometime later.

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-to-do-a-good-deed-and-it-goes-horribly-wrong-fire-and-fundraiser-in-pennsylvania/969657/2 "2022-08-15T02:38:50Z")

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It doesn’t sound like the assailant/driver has any connection with anyone involved with the fire, or anyone at the fundraiser either.