The group had a busy day starting with a single family dwelling with entrapment followed by a Garbage Truck Fire. 

The dwelling fire on Boise St was dispatched just after 3:30 A.M. Upon dispatched it was already reported that an occupant was entrapped. Shortly after dispatch the Special Response Narrative of the Run Card was dispatched upon confirmation of a working fire from the Police Department. The entrapped occupant by this time had already made her way to a front porch roof area where she was rescued by a neighbor and member of the Old Forge Police Department.

Engine 98, 93, 93-3, 112, Rescue 95, 98 & Ladder 96 made quick work of the well involved structure. Rescue 23 Dickson City had the FAST Trk duties.

During the investigation stage of the dwelling fire, crews were sent to a Garbage Truck Fire on the Interstate 81 exit at Davis St. Crews operated for 30 minutes with the assistance of Engine 93.

MOOSIC - A borough man set fire to his home with his sleeping wife inside early Tuesday, because he feared losing the property to a co-worker in a potential lawsuit, investigators said.
Robert Richard Makala, 60, was arrested by state police on multiple counts of arson and related charges hours after he helped rescuers use a neighbor's ladder to remove his trapped wife, Mary, from the front porch roof as flames tore through their home at 615 Boise St.
He admitted to police that he used gasoline to fuel three separate fires - one on a couch in the living room and two on work benches in the basement - inside the blue, two-story house where he and his wife had lived for more than 20 years, state police fire marshal Trooper Stephen Kaneski wrote in the arrest affidavit.
Mrs. Makala was treated for smoke inhalation at an area hospital and later released, said Trooper Bill Satkowski, spokesman for state police at Dunmore.
About 40 firefighters from Moosic and surrounding communities battled the fire, which was reported at 3:28 a.m. The home sustained about $120,000 in damage.
Lackawanna County Assistant District Attorney Corey Kolcharno said investigators believe the arson grew out of a dispute Mr. Makala had with a co-worker that "was festering with him for quite some time." He feared the co-worker would file litigation that would result in his loss of the house, he said.
"It's a rather bizarre and complicated scenario," said Mr. Kolcharno, who did not know where Mr. Makala was employed. Mrs. Makala told police her husband was upset about problems at work and had been acting strangely and talking to himself for a month, the arrest affidavit said.
Trooper Satkowski and Mr. Kolcharno said Mr. Makala was not charged with attempted homicide because there was no evidence to suggest he intended to harm his wife, who was in her bedroom asleep, when he set the fire.
"We definitely contemplated the attempted murder charge, but the intent is very key," said Mr. Kolcharno, adding both the suspect and his wife denied any strife in their marriage.
According the arrest affidavit, Mr. Makala initially told police he drove to Duryea to get gas for his car and found his house on fire and wife on the porch roof when he returned.
He later admitted he bought $4 worth of gas and splashed a small amount on the couch, which he ripped apart because he thought it would burn better, before lighting it with a match, the affidavit said. He then went to the basement and did the same with the benches.
Mr. Makala said when firefighters told him to move his car, he drove to a bridge over Mill Creek near Lonesome Road and tossed the gas can over the side, the affidavit said. About 10 a.m., with help from borough firefighters, police retrieved a red, 2½-gallon plastic gas container from the creek and brought it back to the home.
Police said they also found a book of matches, with four matches missing, in one of Mr. Makala's pocket.
Linda Strong, who lives at 614 Boise St., said the Makala house was ablaze and Mrs. Makala was on the porch roof screaming when she came out of her home around 3:30 a.m. Mr. Makala, neighbor Christopher Buckley and an Old Forge police officer, Robert Stevens, were outside the burning home.
She yelled to them to take a ladder from her garage to get Mrs. Makala off the roof. Mrs. Makala was hysterical and Officer Stevens had to coax her to slide to the edge of the roof as flames shot through the entire house, Ms. Strong said.
"She just made it down," Ms. Strong said. "I mean, the flames just came up, so she was lucky. If it was five more minutes, she would have been burned."
Mr. Makala was charged with three counts each of arson endangering persons and reckless endangerment, along with single counts of arson endangering property, reckless burning and criminal mischief. If convicted on all charges, he faces up to 90 years in prison and $145,000 in fines, Mr. Kolcharno said.
Mr. Makala was arraigned in Central Court by Magisterial District Judge Robert Russell, who ordered him held in the county prison on $100,000 bail. He faces a preliminary hearing next Wednesday at 11:45 a.m.
As a condition of bail, Mr. Makala may have no contact with his wife, Judge Russell said.
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