CLICK HERE FOR SLIDE SHOW OF FIRST PHOTOS OF SCENE BLAZE GUTTING MILFORD CHURCH Fire Began In Dining Hall At Rear, Spreads Throughout By LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – Almost a dozen fire crews at this hour are battling a blaze at the Milford United Methodist Church at 89 Main St. The crews, including Milford, Oneonta, Cooperstown, Mount Vision, Schenevus and several others appeared to have the blaze under control, but it was burning too…
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Man Believed Dead In Cherry Valley Fire CHERRY VALLEY – An elderly man was killed when he couldn’t escape a house fire on Lancaster Street in Cherry Valley early this morning. The call came into Otsego County 911 at 5 a.m. and crews were dispatched to the house, where the second floor was fully engulfed. According to Cherry Valley Fire Chief Martin Field, the adult granddaughter escaped the fire and said that she believed her grandfather was on the second floor and…
CLICK HERE FOR SLIDE SHOW TOO-HOT FLAMES REQUIRED AERIAL Blaze Leaves 11 Laurens Residents Homeless By IAN AUSTIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com LAURENS – It took off like a house on fire. “I got called in at 4:30,” Fire Chief Justin Hill recounted today, the morning after flames ripped through a village home at dusk Thursday afternoon. “I was driving from West Oneonta and I could already see the column of smoke.” Ten fire departments were called to help battle the…
Oneonta Fire Leaves Family Of 5 Homeless ONEONTA – An early morning fire today at a home on Oneida Street destroyed a mobile home and left a family of five homeless. The fire broke out at the home, at 124 Oneida St., Lot 22, at 10:08 a.m, and was believed to have been caused by a space heater in Brett’s room. “He’s always cold,” said his mother, Holly Wayman. “The mattress was the first thing I saw on fire.”…
Morey’s Restaurant Shut By Sunday Evening Fire Hope Is To Reopen By Weekend By IAN AUSTIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Morey’s Family Restaurant, a staple of Oneonta eateries, narrowly avoided disaster on Sunday after a small fire broke out in one of the exterior walls. Staff evacuated diners after the smell of smoke was noticed by someone inside, and a “possible structure fire” was reported to the Oneonta Fire Department at 5:30pm. “Our cook, Cole Patenaude, used an…
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I-88 Reopens After Car, Rig Collide ONEONTA – State police reopened I-88 between Exits 12 and 13 at 1:30 p.m. after clearing the wreckage after a car struck a tractor-trailer, causing it to burst into flames, earlier in the day.…
Car Strikes Tractor-Trailer; I-88 Shut Between Exit 12/13 ONEONTA – A car swerved to miss hitting a dead deer and ended up hitting a tractor-trailer in an accident on I-88 earlier this morning. Hopefully, they knew the difference between Comprehensive vs Third Party Insurance and picked what was right for their situation. I’ve heard that youi.com.au has some useful information on the topic for those interested. With the eastbound lane of I-88 near Oneonta closed for construction, the westbound lane…
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East End Oneonta Blaze Injures Woman; Dog Dies By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – A woman was injured and her dog killed in a fire that broke out at a home on the city’s East End this afternoon. According to Assistant Fire Chief Jim Maloney, a call about a house fire came into the station at 1:13 p.m. The caller initially identified the house as 6 Forest Ave., but upon arriving on scene, the firefighters discovered it was 8 Forest.…