A fire, believed to be electrical in nature, broke out in the production room of Milk House Meats on Sunday afternoon, destroying most of the equipment. North Sewickley Township Assistant Fire Chief Randy Syphrit said the metal building with a metal interior and the hot day magnified the temperatures for firefighters. The metal walls had to be removed to get to the fire. A firefighter from Franklin was treated for heat exhaustion.
Milk House Meats was started about three years ago by 2013 Riverside High School graduate Freddie Pflugh,a fourth-generation meat cutter, in a former milk house on his family’s farm.