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Firefighter Injured During Blaze At Westchester Residence Firefighter Injured During Blaze At Westchester Residence
Firefighter Injured During Blaze At Westchester Residence A firefighter was injured during a blaze at a Northern Westchester home that began in the residence's garage.  The incident began on Thursday, May 16 just after 6 p.m., when Croton-on-Hudson firefighters raced to a home on Memory Lane for a reported blaze.  Within minutes, crews were at the scene and confirmed that a fire had begun in the residence's garage. Firefighters then stretched a hose to the garage while also searching the home for residents.  The blaze was soon extinguished and firefighters began opening up walls, ceilings, and the flooring to make sure all hidden h…

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by Ben Crnic
Police & Fire
Blaze Tears Through Multi-Family Residence In Westchester Blaze Tears Through Multi-Family Residence In Westchester
Blaze Tears Through Multi-Family Residence In Westchester A multi-family residence in Northern Westchester was gutted by an intense blaze that took hours to extinguish, fire officials said. The fire began on Sunday, Feb. 4 around 10:15 a.m. at a two-and-a-half-story residence on Orchard Street in Peekskill, according to the city's fire department.  Arriving fire crews soon found heavy flames coming from the rear of the wood-frame building and began stretching a hose line to begin dousing the blaze. At this point, the fire had engulfed the entire rear of the building from basement to roof and was beginning to even reach surrounding structures, fire…

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by Ben Crnic
Police & Fire
Lithium Ion Battery Causes House Fire In Westchester Lithium Ion Battery Causes House Fire In Westchester
Lithium Ion Battery Causes House Fire In Westchester Firefighters were dispatched to a Northern Westchester residence after a lithium-ion battery sparked a blaze at the home.  The incident happened on Wednesday, Jan. 24 around 2:50 p.m., when a fire began at a residence in Somers in the Amawalk area, according to the Somers Volunteer Fire Department.  Arriving crews found heavy smoke coming from the home and began knocking out the flames with help from several mutual aid departments.  Luckily, the fire was put out with little damage to the residence. The cause of the blaze was later confirmed to have been a lithium-ion ba…

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by Ben Crnic
Police & Fire
Hudson Valley Home Destroyed In Early Morning Blaze: Occupants, Firefighters Escape Unharmed Hudson Valley Home Destroyed In Early Morning Blaze: Occupants, Firefighters Escape Unharmed
Hudson Valley Home Destroyed In Early Morning Blaze: Occupants, Firefighters Escape Unharmed A raging house fire in the Hudson Valley required firefighters to quickly improvise and utilize a water source a mile away to extinguish the blaze.  New, updated report - Update: Support Rises For Mahopac Family Who Lost 'Dream Home' In Blaze The incident happened in Putnam County on Wednesday, Jan. 24, when a residence in Mahopac on Old Bullet Hole Road caught on fire just before 2 a.m., according to Mahopac Falls Volunteer Fire Department Public Information Officer Ellen Sacher.  Crews soon arrived at the single-family home and found it fully engulfed by flames. They …

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by Ben Crnic
Police & Fire
Man Found Dead After House Fire In Westchester County Man Found Dead After House Fire In Westchester County
Man Found Dead After House Fire In Westchester County A man was killed in a house fire in Northern Westchester, firefighters said.  Updated Story - Police ID Man Who Died In House Fire In Somers The fire happened at a two-story residence in Somers on Barlow Court on Monday, Dec. 26 around 9:30 a.m., according to the Somers Volunteer Fire Department.  After arriving, firefighters could see fire and smoke pouring from the house. Soon, a search of the building was commenced as firefighters were able to contain the fire to the area where it started, officials said.  With the help of members of the Yorktown Fire Department, a …

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by Ben Crnic
Police & Fire
One Killed After Collision Between BMW, Motorcycle In Westchester One Killed After Collision Between BMW, Motorcycle In Westchester
One Killed After Collision Between BMW, Motorcycle In Westchester A 32-year-old man was killed in a collision between a BMW and a 2009 Yamaha motorcycle, according to state police. The crash took place around 2:10 p.m., Saturday, April 10 in Northern Westchester on the Taconic State Parkway in the town of Yorktown, said New York State Police Trooper AJ Hicks. When troopers arrived on the scene, close to mile marker 15.5 southbound on the parkway, they found Yorktown Emergency Medical Services personnel were already performing life-saving measures on the operator of the motorcycle, Hicks said. The driver, identified as Julio T. Diaz, age 32, of Queens, wa…

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by Kathy Reakes
Police & Fire
Two-Alarm House Fire Breaks Out In Area Two-Alarm House Fire Breaks Out In Area
Two-Alarm House Fire Breaks Out In Area A late-afternoon, two-alarm house fire broke out on the third story of a residence in the area. It happened just before 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 28 in Mahopac on Nicole Way. The blaze brought a full response from the Mahopac Fire Department with mutual aid from Mahopac Falls, Yorktown and Croton Falls fire departments and NYSE&G, as stations that were responding were covered by other neighboring departments.   Chief Bill Nikisher was Incident Command and positioned the Ladder Company in the driveway of the home to access the third story.  Carmel Police responded wi…

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by Daily Voice
Lifestyle
Kitten Rescued From Inside Engine Of Moving Vehicle In Westchester Kitten Rescued From Inside Engine Of Moving Vehicle In Westchester
Kitten Rescued From Inside Engine Of Moving Vehicle In Westchester It wasn’t a cat stuck in a tree, but firefighters in Yorktown helped manage to save a kitten that found itself caught in a precarious position inside a moving vehicle’s engine. First responders from the Yorktown Fire Department were called in to assist Yorktown Police officers at approximately 7:50 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 2526 to make the strange rescue. Officials said the woman was driving when she heard what she believed to be a cat meowing from inside the vehicle. She proceeded to stop, investigated the incident, and found a tiny stray kitten had crawled into the engine compartment for warm…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
Good Samaritans Pull Woman Trapped Inside Overturned Car In Westchester Good Samaritans Pull Woman Trapped Inside Overturned Car In Westchester
Good Samaritans Pull Woman Trapped Inside Overturned Car In Westchester Two Good Samaritans are being hailed as heroes after rushing to pull an unconscious woman who was trapped inside an overturned vehicle engulfed in flames on the Taconic State Parkway near the Northern Westchester/Putnam border on Thursday. The crash occurred around 3 a.m. near exit 14 (Baldwin Road) in Yorktown. Brian Geary, 30, of East Fishkill and another unknown passerby stopped to assist 56-year-old Linda Gironda prior to the arrival of emergency services. Gironda's vehicle had overturned after hit a rock wall and caught fire with her trapped inside. With the vehicle locked and Gironda…

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by Joe Lombardi
Police & Fire
Popular Deli Damaged In Westchester Fire Popular Deli Damaged In Westchester Fire
Popular Deli Damaged In Westchester Fire A quick response and plenty of help enabled firefighters to save a popular Northern Westchester deli and pizzeria from a fast-moving fire, according to the Croton Falls Fire Chief Dan Dreyer. The department received a call for the fire at Kingsley's Deli & Pizzeria in North Salem around 10:49 p.m. Sunday, from a resident of one of the upstairs apartments who saw smoke coming from the building, Dreyer said. Because there are no working fire hydrants in that part of North Salem, tanker trucks from surrounding departments responded to moved water from a local lake to the restaurant at 252 …

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by Kathy Reakes