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Mahopac Brush Fire Sandwiched On Tree Line Threatens Home Mahopac Brush Fire Sandwiched On Tree Line Threatens Home
Mahopac Brush Fire Sandwiched On Tree Line Threatens Home Mahopac firefighters spent several hours battling a fire located behind a home on Shinaya Court located near a heavily wooded tree line. The call for the fire came in around 3 p.m. Wednesday with the department responding within minutes, Chief Bill Nikisher was quick to call for reinforcements. Mahopac firefighters tried to sandwich the fire between the trucks but the tree line proved too dense and a mutual aid call was put out for Battalion 16 and Mahopac Falls to roll out with a brush truck and tanker. Firefighters had to work the fire from both Shinya Court and Eleanor Drive, officials s…

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by Kathy Reakes
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More Than 40K Central Hudson Customers Still Without Power More Than 40K Central Hudson Customers Still Without Power
More Than 40K Central Hudson Customers Still Without Power Wednesday’s winter storm, the second in five days, brought a foot or more of heavy snow throughout the region, weighing down trees and breaking limbs onto power lines, cutting power to thousands. Complicated by storm conditions and visibility, repair crews of Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. worked throughout the storm to repair damage and restore power to more than 22,000 customers. But with the heavy damage, as of 7 a.m. Thursday, 40,000 customers still remained without electric service, primarily in Ulster and Dutchess counties, and more than 650 damage locations were reported. T…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Two-Thirds Of Central Hudson Customers With Outages Have Power Back Two-Thirds Of Central Hudson Customers With Outages Have Power Back
Two-Thirds Of Central Hudson Customers With Outages Have Power Back Electric service has been restored to more than two-thirds of the 110,000 Central Hudson Gas & Electric customers impacted by Friday’s powerful Nor’easter that interrupted electricity to more than 2 million households from Maine to Virginia. As of 7 a.m. on Sunday, approximately 33,000 customers remained without electric service, and nearly 1,000 individual damage locations require repair. High wind gusts and heavy snow toppled trees, resulting in nearly 100 broken poles, approximately 1,000 downed powerlines and serious damage to nine transmission lines. The storm was one of the most s…

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by Daily Voice