COAL TOWNSHIP – A Coal Township firefighter has died while responding to help battle a blaze at a home in Coal Township.  Northumberland County Coroner James Kelley tells us 53-year-old Scott W. Dannheimer was pronounced dead Thursday afternoon in the emergency room at Geisinger-Shamokin.
Captain Dannheimer of the East End Fire Company responded to a noon-hour house fire on North First Street in Coal Township. Kelley says Dannheimer was found unresponsive in the cab of the fire truck and was then taken to the hospital, where he later died. An autopsy is scheduled for this morning at 8 a.m. at Forensic Pathology Associates in Allentown.
