The monthly Texas Hold'em Tournament is Sunday, September 26. Sign up is at 3pm. $65. buy in, two games are played. Free Food, Soda, Coffee & Tea. Cash Bar. Hope to see you there!

44 players enjoyed the August Tournament!

Thank you for your support!

Friday, September 3, 2010 1817 The Cornwall-on-Hudson Fire Dept was alerted for a MVA with injuries at the intersection of U.S. RT 9W and Mountain Rd. Rescue-417 and Engine-411 responded and were on scene in minutes. Upon arrival units found 2 cars that were involved in the accident with both vehicles leaking fluids onto the roadway. Crews checked for injuries, cut the batteries to both vehicles and applied speedy dry to the spill. Units were back in service by 18:39. Cornwall EMS and police units from both the town and village were on scene also assisting.  

The 12th Annual Bruce Armitage Memorial Softball Tournament will be held on October 2nd & 3rd, 2010, at the Black Rock Fish and Game Club in Mountainville, New York.

Bruce passed away in June of 1999 after a long and courageous battle with cancer at the age of 33, leaving behind his wife Lilly and his children, Jared and Briana. The first softball tournament was held in the fall of 1999. All proceeds from that tournament and every tournament since have gone into an educational trust fund for his children.

The tournament is organized by the Storm King Fire Engine Company #2 of which Bruce was a 15-year volunteer member at the time of his passing. Bruce also spent time as a career firefighter at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

This year’s tournament will be open to 22 teams as in the past. Teams that have played before in the tournament have first refusal. The format will be double elimination single arc pitch as in the prior years.

The entry fee is $250.00 per team.

Many of the teams that play in this tournament have been playing in it since the beginning including:

Highland Engine Co. #1     Salisbury Mills FD         Tom’s Tavern        
Village Pizza                          Cornwall Corsairs        Mountainville Manor   
T&M Deli                                South Gate Tavern        Valdina’s Land Surveyors
MGI Softball               

Tournament Champions

1999 – T&M Deli                                       2004 – Fat Boyz
2000 – T&M Deli                                       2005 - Dominicks
2001 – South Gate Tavern                       2006 – The Knights   
2002 – South Gate Tavern                       2007 – Walden Land Surveyors
2003 – Youngs Auto (MGI Softball)           2008 -  Jeager Bombs
       
There will also be a Homerun Derby. The entry fee is $100.00 with half the proceeds going to the fund and the other half going to the winner. Anyone interested in joining the homerun derby should contact Mike Trainor at 534-5538. The derby is open to individuals not playing in the tournament. The derby will be held on Saturday Sept. 12th  in the afternoon.

We have also established the Bruce Armitage Athletic award given to a male and female graduating athlete from the Cornwall Central High School. Bruce was a 1983 graduate of Cornwall Central High School. During his years at the high school Bruce played on the baseball and basketball teams.

Past Award Winners:

2008 – Michael O’Rourke & Christina Jordan
2009 – Harrison Larkin & Allison Cleary

We are always looking for sponsors to help defray the cost of holding this event. Anyone looking to be a sponsor may contact Mike Trainor at 534-5538(home), 845-629-1419(cell), ske2chief@aol.com email. Any individuals who would like to donate to the fund may do so by making their checks payable to:

Bruce Armitage Scholarship Trust Fund
c/o Mike Trainor
1 Elsie Circle
Cornwall on Hudson, New York 12520

 

After overcooking dinner in the oven, the smoke alarm just wouldn't shut up...so you happened to rip the smoke alarm off the ceiling, tear the battery out and leave it on the kitchen countertop...finally silence!  It has been a long stressful day, its now 8pm and you still have to feed the family so you order take-out.  After a dissapointing dinner, as you grow tired and distracted by the stressors of life, you forget to replace the smoke alarm where it belongs and lay to sleep with your family.

It is now 2:30am, the family is deep asleep upstairs in their bedrooms and the electrical outlet to your kitchen refrigerator snaps, crackles and pops as it overheats and begins to smolder.  There was only one smoke alarm on the first floor of your home but you haphazardly forgot to put it back in it's place after it was a nusiance when dinner burned up in the oven.  At least you had one more outside the bedrooms on the second floor.  It is now 2:45am, the fire has spread on the first floor and filled the house with toxic smoke as you awake startled to hear the fire alarm sounding.  As you leap from bed to your feet, you smell smoke, and SCREAM FIRE!  You open your bedroom door to find thick brown smoke filling the hallway and drop to you knees choking as you try to find your children's bedrooms to get them out.

This story sounds like the begininng of a nightmare and is unfortunately too common as carelessness leads to injury and death from fire.  Homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms account for about two-thirds of residential fire deaths.  Most fatal fires happen when families are asleep because they are unaware of a fire until there is not enough time to escape.  When you go to sleep, so does your sense of smell...without a working smoke alarm, you may never wake up!

According to the United States Fire Administration (USFA), every year in the United States, about 3,000 people lose their lives in residential fires.  Ask your neighbors about citizens in your community who have perished in a fire and you will certainly hear about too many.  Most recently in 2008, a Cornwall resident perished in a fire at home.

To learn about Smoke Alarms - Why, Where, and Which - Click on the title of this article to view a factsheet from the Consumer Product Safety Commission that will answer all of your questions about smoke alarms.  If you have specific questions that you would like answered, please email me at kurt@advancefiresafety.com

Be Safe!

The Silent Killer, know as Carbon Monoxide or (CO) is a product of combustion or anything that burns.  Deaths and serious injuries as a result of this Silent Killer are preventable by properly installing a Carbon Monoxide Detector.  Amanda's Law, effective February 22, 2010 in New York State requires that Carbon Monoxide Detectors be installed and in operable condition in dwellings where there are appliances or systems that my emit Carbon Monoxide or have an attached garage. 

The law was named after Amanda Hansen, a teenager whose life was tragically ended by a Carbon Monoxide leak from a defective boiler while she was sleeping at a friend's house in January 2009.

Each year in America, unintentional Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning claims more than 500 lives and sends another 15,200 people to hospital emergency rooms for treatment according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

If your Carbon Monoxide alarm sounds, Dial 9-1-1 for the Fire Department to investigate the source of activation.  If Illness is a factor, Evacuate All Occupants Immediately and relay information to the 9-1-1 Dispatcher.

In 2007, an elderly couple from Cornwall were killed in their home from Carbon Monoxide as a result of a collapsed exhaust pipe in a wall mounted gas heater.  Their death could have been prevented if a Carbon Monoxide Detector was installed in the home. 

Carbon Monoxide Detectors cost between $18 for battery operated upto $50 for a plug-in outlet model with battery back-up...certainly affordable to save lives.  Carbon Monoxide Detectors should be installed, maintained and replaced according to manufacturer recommendations.  Average life-span of a CO Detector is about 5-years.

People commonly install Carbon Monoxide Detectors in the same room as their gas or oil fueled appliances.  Although this seems to make sense, we spend the majority of our time in living areas, not where our utilities are located.  Install CO Detectors in common living areas such as the family room or bedrooms and places where you spend the majority of time in your home...that will save you time when the alarm sounds to take action and save lives.  

to view the full story, click on the title for Carbon Monoxide factsheets and the related RecordOnline news article