Somers Working Structure Fire

[RES20CUE 40]

Date: 26 September 2006

Time of Alarm: 0512hrs

First unit on location: 0518hrs

Location: 7 Hunter Lane, Lake Purdy's

Frequency: 46.26, 46.42, Somers District-Wide, UHF F/G 1

Units Operating:

Somers- Cars 2441(Command), 2442 (Operations), 2443, 2444, 2445, 2449, 8011 (EMS) Engines 181, 185, 186, 188; Ladder 18, Rescue 20, Ambulances 80B1, 80B2; Utility 5

Croton Falls- Cars 2071(Water Supply), 2072, Tanker 8

Golden's Bridge- Cars 2141 (Stagging), 2142, 2143 (Acting as 45M2), Tanker 1

Katonah- Cars 2211, 2212, 2213 (Safety), Tanker 6

Bedford Hills- Cars 2032, 2033, TL57 (FAST)

Yorktown- Car 2531, Engine 271 (to SFD HQ)

Brewster- Ambulance 11-7-1 (to SFD HQ)

WCDES- Battalion 13, C&O 1404

OTHERS- WEMS 45M2, NYSP, Somers PD, NYSEG, Somers Building Inspector; Somers VFD Ladies Auxiliary, Baker Excavating

Description Of Incident: 2 1/2 Story (1 1/2 up-1 below) Wood Frame Occupied Residential Dwelling. Fire showing from all 4 sides and coming thru roof upon arrival. Batt 13 reported seeing it from Hardscrabble Rd in Croton Falls. Initial reports that someone may have been in residence, proved negative.

Water Source set up at Dean's Pond on Dean's Bridge Road, tanker shuttle to Hunter Ln and Deans Bridge Rd.

Total of 3 handlines initially in operation- 2-3" Master Streams and 1- 2 1/2", all 3 broke down to 2" handlines for mobilty when fire was darkened down.

Ladder pipe put into operation to fully extinguish, once NYSEG cut live power lines that were blocking access to the #4 side.

Awesome job again by all those who responded- never lost water once the shuttle was established, great turn-out by all responding departments. Nice easy and SAFE operation. A few dings on E-181 and E-188, but we are a "working" department, dings come with the turf!

C&O Zone 4 along with "blaze" determined fire suspicious- investigation continuing by C&O and NYSP.

Great Job again to all!

Edited September 26, 2006 by RES20CUE

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A few dings on E-181 and E-188, but we are a "working" department, dings come with the turf!

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Did they hit each other? If so, who won?

Fire that destroyed unoccupied Somers house ruled suspicious

By ROB RYSER

THE JOURNAL NEWS

(Original publication: September 26, 2006)

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story reported an incorrect address for the burned house.

SOMERS — The fire that destroyed an unoccupied one-family home at 7 Hunter Lane today has been ruled suspicious.

Somers Fire Chief Edwin Byrnes III said at 1 p.m. that immediate details about the investigation were not available.

State police and investigators from Westchester County's Cause and Origin Team were at the scene this afternoon and not available to comment.

No injuries were reported among the 60 firefighters who responded.

The house was unoccupied at the time a neighbor reported flames at 5:12 a.m.. Byrnes said the son of the homeowner lived in the home and was at work when the fire was reported. He did not identify the homeowner.

The home, a modest raised ranch on an acre of land, had been on the market for $619,000, Barry Malawer, a Realtor with Century 21-Mulvey of Yorktown Heights who had the listing.

Edited September 26, 2006 by Remember585