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Residents Living In Building Illegally Escape Fire At Westchester Home Residents Living In Building Illegally Escape Fire At Westchester Home
Residents Living In Building Illegally Escape Fire At Westchester Home Residents living illegally in a building without any working utilities were able to escape without injury when a fire broke out in the basement area of a Yonkers home, the Yonkers Fire Department said. The fire, at 51 Victor Street, was reported to the Yonkers Fire Department around 3 a.m. Tuesday, said Assistant Chief John Bonanno, Firefighters from Battalion 1 arrived within a minute and confirmed there was a working structure fire located in the basement of the two-and-a-half story wood-frame building. Some 40 firefighters quickly made an aggressive interior attack along with searching …

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by Kathy Reakes