OFD DOUSES FIRE AT LUTZ FEED MILL 4 Tons Of Smoldering Material Removed By IAN AUSTIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Three OFD fire engines, including a ladder truck, were dispatched to Lutz Feed on Lower River Street about 1 p.m. today to contain a fire that had broken out in one of the roaster/cooling tanks. Small husks from the beans in the feed occasionally catch fire during the roasting process, explained General Manager Blake Lutz.…
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Non-Student Arrested For Starting SUNY Campus Fires ONEONTA — A 20-year-old was arrested and charged with arson after allegedly setting fire overnight to light poles and shrubbery on the SUNY Oneonta campus with a blow torch. He is not a student, University Police said. Zachary A. Penzabene of Ravena, south of Albany, was arrested after University Police responded to a report and found several fires, one on the quad and others near the track, and contacted the Oneonta Fire Department to extinguish them.…
OPD Probes Possible Arson On Salvation Army Vehicle By LIBBY CUDMORE • AllOTSEGO.com Exclusive ONEONTA – City police are investigating a fire that damaged the Salvation Army canteen truck in the driveway of Maj. Sharon Harford late on New Year’s Eve. “At about three in the morning on New Year’s, I heard someone ringing my doorbell,” she said. “I didn’t answer, and the next day, I saw that several plastic crates had been tossed out and there were burn marks on the ground.”…