Fire damages Pa. windmill hundreds of feet in the air as crews use drone to spot burning debris Updated Dec 29, 2020; MAHANOY CITY — Fire damaged a windmill Monday afternoon in Mahanoy Township. Around 2:45 p.m., firefighters from Mahanoy City’s West End Fire and Rescue Company were called to the Locust Ridge Wind Farm. Mahanoy City Fire Chief Dan Markiewicz said the fire was in the hub mechanism in windmill “T8,” about a mile east of the entrance to the wind farm at Route 339. The chief said windmills use oil and other petroleum products in day-to-day operations and it was those petroleum products that were on fire.