Bronx 5-Alarmer Home Destroyed in Colonie Blaze

- Fire News photo by Lloyd Mitchell

Battalion 18 transmitted a 10-75 forsmoke in an apartment building on Noble Avenue in the Bronx. Units found heavy smoke throughout the top floor. Members used six hoselines and four towerladders to what would become a five-alarm fire on June 11, 2023.

Just before midnight on June 8, 2023, crews from Colonie Village, Stanford Heights, West Albany, Midway, Boght FAST, Shaker Road and FullerRoad were dispatched to a structure fire on Debbie Court. The departments realized that the fire had been burning forwell overan hourpriorto being called in. Flames from the basement were shooting through the roof and most of the rear portion of the dwelling was completely gone. It took the departments overan hourjust to get the hot spots extinguished.

- Submitted by Lori Washburn; photo by Photos By Truck