Organizers in Delphos have worked with the Peace Light North America organization to bring the burning lantern to Ohio, and its journey to the buckeye state is quite remarkable. Every year in late November, a young kid from Austria lights the lantern from the continuously burning flame of the peace light candle inside the church of the Nativity in Bethlehem where Jesus was born. Once the flame has been transferred, the burning lantern travels from Tel Aviv in Israel to Vienna in Austria.
The Lima Fire Department was called out to 618 East Vine Street just before midnight on Tuesday. Flames were showing when they arrived and they called in more firefighters to help. The home was vacant, and with the vegetation overgrown around the house, firefighters concentrated on the exterior of the house before moving in.
A two-alarm fire complete destroys a south Lima home late Saturday night. The Lima Fire department was called out to 786 S. Metcalf St. just after 11 p.m., after a neighbor heard an explosion and saw flames shooting from the home. Lima Fire called in Shawnee Township for mutual aid. The heat of the fire cause damage to homes on either side and the wall on the south side of the house was moved out about a foot and half. It is unknown if anybody was living there at the time. Fire investigators from Lima and Shawnee Township are looking into the cause. Fire crews were on scene for five hours. The home was completely destroyed and will have to be torn down.
A home in Cridersville is assumed to be a total loss after an early morning fire.
Just after 10 a.m. Friday morning, the Ada Jackson Township Fire Department was called out to the 500 block of East Lincoln Avenue for a fully engulfed trailer fire. The flames were so big, that it caught a neighboring trailer on fire too. The mobile home where the fire originated is a total loss, the other trailer sustained substantial damage. It is unknown at this time what caused the fire. The Red Cross was called in to help the people living in the trailers.
Thousands of dollars of damage were caused to a Lima home early Tuesday morning. The Lima Fire Department says that they were called out to a house fire in the 600 block of Runyan Avenue just after 2 a.m.