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To date, $13, 765 has been raised to help the family whose 12 Mega Lane house was ablaze when firefighters arrived there Monday afternoon, multiple reports said.
The fire started around 3 p.m. on Monday when 911 phone lines lit up reporting a possible brush fire at the end of Hatfield Road in the Lake MacGregor area of the Mahopac Falls Fire District.
Going out with a brush fire response, brush truck and tanker pumper with a call for the ambulance to standby at the scene, Asst. Chief Brian Sacher was informed that the fire was covering approximately four-plus acres, authorities said.
Mutual aid calls for brush trucks, manpower were toned out. Responding units from Mahopac, Putnam Valley and Kent, along with Carmel Police and the New York State Forrest Ranger all pitched in and got the stubborn fire out.
Before the units were back in station, Mahopac Fire was dispatched to a working house fire on Mega Lane, off Drewville Road.
People stated that smoke could be seen from as far as Briarcliff and Millwood.
The large home was fully engulfed with propane tanks going off, firefighters raised the Ladder Truck for a Master Stream as teams attacked the fire with hand lines, authorities said.
Assistance from Carmel, Kent, Somers, Yorktown Heights, Croton Falls Fire Depts. and units from Carmel Police, Putnam County Sheriff and NYSE&G responded.
Two of the home's occupants were home at the time of the fire bud escaped without harm, reports said.
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