This evening the Roosevelt Fire District was dispatched to an Automatic Alarm of Fire at the Culinary Institute of America Rosenthal Hall (Dorm C), with 3 engines and the Ladder Truck. Upon units responding,  a call back from CIA security was received reporting smoke in the building, this caused the alarm to be upgraded to a full structural response, this increases the initial assignment to an additional 2 engines, a rescue truck and an ambulance.  1st arriving apparatus...

Members of the Roosevelt Fire District assisted at the scene of a fatal bicyclist accident on Route 9 in Hyde Park last night.  Details are still being investigated as to what happened, by local law enforcement agencies. The road in this area was closed for approximately 5 hrs while police agencies conducted a accident reconstruction.The accident occurred about 915 pm last night in front of the Speedway Gas Station located at 3964 Albany Post Road, which is located between River Point Road ...

Today at approximately 0528 hrs, the Roosevelt Fire District was dispatched to a reported structure fire at 9 Windmill Road in the Greenfields Development off Cream Street.  At 0531 hrs., Chief Lew Darrow arrived on scene to find a structure at the location fully involved in fire. The structure was the housing developments Sewage treatment plant.  Firefighters arrived and conducted a rapid agressive attack on what was left of the building,  they had the fire under control in ...

Roosevelt Ladder 63-45 and Engine 63-12 relocated to City of Poughkeepsie Station #2 at 505 Main Street over night while they operated at a 3 Alarm fire in multiple buildings on Duane Street on the City's Northwest side. While these units were relocated along with an Engine each from Arlington and Highland (Ulster County) FD, they handled 2 additional calls for assistance in the City. 3 buildings were lost in this fire, no civilian injuries were reported and there was an injury to a City fir...

Roosevelt firefighters, along with 1 Engine from Pleasant Valley FD were dispatched this morning to a report of a Automatic Fire Alarm at 501 Salt Point Road.  Within a couple minutes of being dispatched to this call a passing Pleasant Valley Fire Dept. firefighter contacted the PVFD Chief advising him he was on scene and there was an active fire in the building.  That chief immediately contacted DC911 dispatch to update them of a actual fire, which DC911 then redispatched as such upgr...

Roosevelt Ladder 63-45 moved up to stand-by at the City of Poughkeepsie Main Street Station tonight for couple hours as City of Poughkeepsie FD operating at 2nd Alarm Fire on 45 Fitchett Street.   City Engines 1, 2, 3 & Trucks 1 & 2 operated at a 3 story residential house fire, they were assisted at scene by Fairview FD 41-11 assisting with fire attack and Arlington FD 32-52 & FAST team standing by.   City fire stations were covered by mutual aid from New Hamburg ...

Roosevelt firefighters assisted this morning with a mutual aid 2nd alarm fire at the Hyde Park Heights Apartments at 107 East Market Street in the Hyde Park Fire District.  Roosevelt Engine 63-13 & 63-14, along with ESS 63-51 were called to assist this morning.  63-14 and 63-51 were to the scene and 63-13 relocated to the Hyde Park Fire Station for stand-by duty.  A fire in Building A at the complex was found by first arriving firefighters this morning around 0835 hrs. in an u...

Members were called to the scene of a reported Auto Accident this morning at the intersection of Cream St. & Crum Elbow Rd.  Shortly after that dispatched updated the location and information on the call, revealing that the accident was at the Intersection of Crum Elbow Rd. and Cardinal Rd. with entrapment by the Town of Hyde Park Police Station. Members arrived and found 2 cars involved and about a 200 foot distance between them,  with one occupant out of the car ambulatory and t...

Members of Roosevelt were dispatched to a report of an auto accident in the Greenfields Development off Cream Street at about 0945 hrs. yesterday with a report of a car that hit a utility pole with wires down.   Enroute advisement was made that there is possible ejection from the vehicle of the occupant. Arrival on scene finds a soul occupant/driver of the vehicle standing outside her car.  EMS crews evaluated teh victim and she signed offr refusing medical attention,  ...

Today crews were dispatched at approx. 0938 hrs. for a report of a fire in a wood stove at a residence in the Harbor Hills Development on Robert Drive.  Shortly after the original dispatch units were advised that the fire maybe out,  but there is a smoke condition in the residence.On arrival of 63-1, Chief Nichols,  he alerted dispatch to a fire that was extinguished by the homeowner with an extinguisher and heavy smoke throughout the residence.  Units arrived and quickl...

At approximately 1040 pm this evening Roosevelt units were alerted to a report of a burning odor in a residence with slight smoke at 10 Ash Lane in the Greentree Development.  Roosevelt 63-11, 12, 13, 16, 45, 71 & 51, along with prearranged mutual aid from Hyde Park FD with 46-11 to scene responded. Upon arrival units investigated and found a possible electrical issue was causing the odor,  Central Hudson Electric was called to the scene.  With no fire or smoke found, &nb...

Roosevelt Engine 63-14 from Station 3 was called company assist with manpower to scene of a fatal auto accident in Station 1 area on Thursday September 5th. Mutual aid assistance from Fairview and Staatsburg were also on scene. The crash occurred at 10:10 a.m., just north of the old Hyde Park Police station.Article from Poughkeepsie Journal:http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20130906/NEWS/309050047/Hyde-Park-woman-dies-3-vehicle-crash-Route-9G

Roosevelt 63-45 along with 63-11 & 63-12 responded mutual to a structure fire on South Quaker Lane with  the Pleasant Valley FD.  On arrival of the first members they had smoke pushing from every roof vent and windows were already blackened down showing signs of high heat and fire in the building.  A second alarm was transmitted and first in crews made a valiant effort to make entry into the building to try and search the origin of the fire.  The fi...

Roosevelt 63-11, 63-12, 63-13, 63-16, 63-45, 63-51, 63-71 along with Mobile Life Support EMS and Hyde Park FD 46-11 to the scene of a reported bathroom fire, possible extension into the attic.  On arrival first responding units found smoke venting from the residence,  a qucik search for the reason finds a fire in a light.fan fixture in the bathroom that had ignited blown in insulation in the attic above.  Crews made quick work of the fire,  checking for extension and extingui...

On this date at just a little before 7pm Dutchess 911 dispatched Roosevelt units for a report of a Chimney Fire on Cardinal Road. On arrival of the first units, they found an active chimney fire with extension progressing rapidly into the structure as they investigated and began to open up. Crews were deployed into the structure where they were met with fire in walls and heavy smoke as well as heat on the second floor around the fireplace chase area of the wall. As crews began to open up ins...

At about 0130 this morning, Roosevelt 63-14 and 63-12 were dispatched to the scene of a reported structure fire at 15 Yates Avenue of Violet Avenue in the Fairview Fire District. While enroute Units were advised of a possible victim trapped on the 2nd floor of the residence unable to extricate herself. First arriving Fairview crews made a quick search finding her disoriented on the 2nd floor and rescued and her pet dog from out of the house. Click link for story in MidHudson News http://www....

DC911 dispatched a 1st alarm for a odor of gas in the structure at a vacant house off Cream Street earlier today. The apparatus dispatched to the scene were 63-11, 12, 13 & 15, 63-71, 63-51, Mutual Aid from Fairview FD with 41-45 and Mobile Life Support EMS. On arrival of apparatus and investigation of the call they found a faint odor on the B/C side of the house. Closer investigation initially revealed what may be a gas line that was disconnected from the incoming service, but later fo...

Engine 63-14 along with 63-12, Poughkeepsie 57-12 and Pleasant Valley 56-33 ran a pre-arranged mutual aid structure fire box to the Fairview Fire District at Aldrich Motors on East Dorsey Lane late yesterday afternoon. On arrival of Fairview units they found a good amount of smoke exiting the structure from what turned out to be a flash fire caused by welding work being done on a vehicle in the garage. Firefighters stretched in a 1 3/4" hose line to check for any fire and hot spots, all...

At 2115 hrs. tonight, Roosevelt Engine 63-12 and Ladder 63-45 relocated to Main Street Station in City of Poughkeepsie. City units along with an Engine from the Arlington FD and a Ladder truck from the Fairview FD were operating at a 3rd Alarm structure fire on Washington Street. Arlington was standing by as the FAST team while Fairview firefighters were assisting with roof ventilation and containing the fire. Upon arrival first responding units found a large structure with heavy fire thro...

Today at a little before noon the Staatsburg FD received a dispatch from DC911 for a reported trailer fire in the Arvans Trailer Park off West Fallkill Road. On arrival of the first responding in officer, a second alarm was transmitted requesting assistance from multiple surround agencies. On the second alarm Roosevelt 63-13 responded to the scene with manpower and water to assist. Once on scene they dropped one tank of water and assisted with smoothly moving water along to the scene in t...