Niles Fire Through the Roof

On April 24, 2023, members of the Mottville VolunteerFire Company (MVFC) were engaged in theirregularMonday evening drill (training on fire suppression and patient transport with their UTVat the Skaneateles TransferStation) when, at 2000, they were dispatched to a possible house fire on West Lake Road in Niles. MVFC Car1, Car2, Car3, Car400, Squad 5, Engine 2, RescuePumper1, and Fire Police responded. Originally called into Cayu ga County as a chimney fire, MVFC units arrived on scene to find a working residential structure fire with flames through the roof Firefighters were pulled from the house when the roof suffered a partial collapse. Crews from Skaneateles, Moravia, Scipio, Sennett, New Hope, Locke, West Niles, Fleming, Marcellus, Owasco, Sempronius, FourTown Ambulance, and SAVES also responded. One firefightersuffered non-life-threatening injuries.