| Onondaga County LODD |
| Sun. Mar 7th 2010 |
Borodino Firefighter Gerard Marcheterre died from a heart attack while responding to a rescue call Saturday night in the Town of Spafford.
Marcheterre was feeling short of breath while on the way to the barn collapse. He was later taken to Cortland Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced de...
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| Syracuse remembers nine who died in 1939 Collins Block fire |
| Wed. Feb 3rd 2010 |
The Collins Block fire was 71 years ago, but the need to honor the firefighters who died there is ongoing, Syracuse’s fire chief said Wednesday at a memorial service for the fallen.
“With the passing of time, a separation is created between our busy, everyday lives and the events o...
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| Syracuse Common Council wants cuts in police, fire OT |
| Wed. Feb 3rd 2010 |
Under pressure from Mayor Stephanie Miner and the Syracuse Common Council, the city’s new chiefs of police and fire Wednesday committed to working with City Hall to reduce overtime costs.
The promises came during a meeting of the council’s Public Safety Committee and on the heels of ...
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| Fire damages Manlius home |
| Mon. Feb 1st 2010 |
A Manlius home suffered extensive smoke and water damage Monday evening, but no one was injured in the blaze.
Firefighters from several area volunteer fire departments responded to the fire at 5499 North Manlius Road around 5:30 p.m.
When they arrived, they found a fire that had begun in the l...
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| Tenant charged with arson in East Syracuse fire |
| Sun. Jan 31st 2010 |
A tenant of a DeWitt apartment complex was charged with arson after being injured in an early morning fire that sent a police officer and another resident to the hospital, town police said.
The occupant of the Springfield Garden apartment where the fire started, Markina L. Mason, 34, of Apartm...
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| Kerosene heater sparks Onondaga Nation mobile home fire |
| Sun. Jan 31st 2010 |
A portable kerosene heater was the cause of a mobile home fire this afternoon on the Onondaga Nation, nation Fire Chief Ron Shenandoah said.
Shenandoah said his niece, Sachane Shenandoah, and her three children, ages 2, 4 and 11, lived in the Martins Lane home. Ron Shenandoah said he does not ...
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| Unattended cooking oil starts Syracuse apartment fire |
| Sun. Jan 31st 2010 |
A woman who left her cooking oil unattended on the stove started a fire that gutted her Syracuse apartment this afternoon, city firefighters said.
Alonda Gaiter, 21, of 216 Crippen Ave., Apt. 5, started heating some oil to fry fish and went into the hallway to chat with a neighbor, said fire i...
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| Residents escape fire in house on Syracuse's Southside |
| Fri. Jan 29th 2010 |
Fire damaged a residence on the city's Southside today, but everyone inside made it out uninjured.
The fire, at 238 Furman St., was called in about 11:55 a.m. by a Time-Warner Co. employee.
The blaze started in a first-floor apartment, and flames were blowing out the windows when firefighters arr...
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| Fire destroys base of air pollution study at Skaneateles farm |
| Fri. Jan 29th 2010 |
A fire Thursday in Skaneateles destroyed the local nerve center, but not the heart, of a national study of air pollution produced by farms.
Although the office trailer and science equipment at Twin Birch Dairy, 1840 Benson Road, were lost at a cost of perhaps $500,000, virtually all the data colle...
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| OCVFA presents the 2nd Annual Legislative Breakfast |
| Thu. Jan 28th 2010 |
ATTENTION CHIEFS, PRESIDENTS, COMMISSIONER
A REMINDER: OCVFA presents the 2nd Annual Legislative Breakfast
WHERE: Comfort Inn, Buckley Road, Liverpool, New York
WHEN: ...
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