UPDATED: Radio traffic added – Another fire station burns – This one in NY State’s Thousand Island Park
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Above and below are a series of videos from Joe Palmer and Joe C. of a fire that began late last night (Wednesday) destroying the Thousand Island Park fire station, it’s apparatus and at least two businesses, including the ice cream shop known as The Guzzle and a plumbing business. Thousand Island Park is on Wellesley Island at Orleans in Jefferson County, New York.
(Thanks to Joe Burke and Larry Girard for alerting STATter911.com to this story.)
The call for help came just before midnight — a serious situation in the small Thousand Island Park community.
Fred Lampman is deputy director of Jefferson County’s fire and emergency management. He said the blaze was “originally reported as an explosion with a large building on fire.”
The building houses a portion of the Wellesley Island Fire Department. Inside were fire trucks, the department’s only ambulance and rescue gear.
After burning for about a half hour, the building collapsed, showering neighboring homes in fiery debris.
Recently, two fire stations in New Brunswick, Canada burned (here & here) and on August 5, the Mt. Eden VFD is Kentucky was destroyed. STATter911.com was contacted this week by Lt. John Butler Jr., the PIO for Mt. Eden VFD, with an update on that fire:
I just wanted to pass along some information concerning the fire we had at our station one at 260 Van Buren Road on Tuesday August 5th, 2014, at 05:14. We are located just south of Shelbyville, Kentucky serving both Spencer and Shelby counties. Our station one is in Spencer County, and our station two (sub-station) is located in Shelby County.
So far, both the ATF and insurance investigators say it is “non suspicious” in nature, but are still searching for a more definitive cause. We are planning on rebuilding, and are hopeful that our department will come out of this devastating situation stronger than before. On top of all our equipment being a total loss, we lost four vehicles, a 1991 Grumman Engine, 2010 Tanker, 2004 Chevrolet Forestry Unit, and a 2004 Chevrolet Suburban that was used for medical runs. The last week has been absolutely exhausting, but we are slowly getting back on our feet.
