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Tornado Touchdown Confirmed In Hudson Valley Tornado Touchdown Confirmed In Hudson Valley
Tornado Touchdown Confirmed In Hudson Valley Updated story: Confirmed Tornado Touched Down In Three NY Locations The first tornado touchdown has been confirmed following separate rounds of storms over the last few days in the region. The National Weather Service announced on late Sunday morning, Nov. 14 the twister happened in New York's Hudson Valley, in eastern Dutchess County, in the town of Washington, on the first day of the back-to-back storms, on Friday, Nov. 12 at 11:15 a.m. It rated EF-1 (the second-weakest of the six levels on the Enhanced Fujita Scale). It had a maximum sustained wind speed of 90 miles per h…

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by Joe Lombardi
Police & Fire
Fairfield County Firefighter Dies While Rock Climbing, Police Say Fairfield County Firefighter Dies While Rock Climbing, Police Say
Fairfield County Firefighter Dies While Rock Climbing, Police Say A firefighter in Fairfield County who died from injuries he sustained while rock climbing in New York's Hudson Valley had nearly reached the 200-foot mark of his climb when he fell and was killed. Stephen M. Buda III, age 56, of New Haven, was killed around 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 7, while rock climbing at a popular spot of the Trapps Bridge section of the Mohonk Preserve, said the Ulster County Sheriff's Office. A firefighter with the Bridgeport Police Department since 2013, sheriff's deputies said it appears Buda had reached about 150 to 175 feet of the roughly 200-foot-section when he …

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by Kathy Reakes