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Saturday, August 27, 2011  Cornwall-on-Hudson firefighters were kept busy with Hurricane Irene which brought historic flooding to the village and a record number of fire calls for the fire dept. Rain began to fall early Saturday as the outer bands of Irene began to hit and by late Saturday night and early Sunday morning Irene was in Cornwall-on-Hudson's back yard with all her fury. Massive flooding began to occur on Mountain Rd around 10am Sunday morning with many residents being evacuated by Fire Dept members. That was the start of a very busy 24 hours. From Saturday 9pm to Monday 1am there were a record 107 calls. All 107 were answered by a dedicated crew that volunteered to stay at the firehouse for nearly 28 hours! This is how the calls were broken down... 95 pump outs, 3 medical calls, 2 wires down, 1 electrical fire, 1 automatic alarm, 1 tree on house and 4 rescue calls with 16 residents from Mountain Rd and 12 from Deer Hill Rd being evacuated. This totaled 772 man hours! A job well done to the members of Storm King Engine!

Friday, March 18, 2011  A busy week continued for Storm King's bravest on Friday March 18th as the department responded to its 2nd structure fire of the week shortly after 2pm. This time the fire was located in the City of Newburgh on Williams St. Originally the call was for Tower-413 to respond to Newburgh's Station 1 for stand by duties but was quickly moved to the scene as the fire grew. Also responding to the scene was Car -1 (Armitage). When T-413 got on scene it set up shop in a vacant lot where crews then split up into two. One group heading up to the roof in the bucket to open up for ventilation while the other preformed a search of an exposure building that caught fire. After the search came up negative, that crew then preformed overhaul inside the structure, while the bucket crew began hitting hot spots on the roof. Storm King units were back in service around 5pm. Unfortunately there was one fatality in this fire as a little girl perished. One other child was saved from the building by her uncle and was given life saving CPR by Newburgh Fire Chief Michael Vatter!

If you are a male or female age 16 and up, we need you to help our friends and neighbors in the community by becoming a Volunteer Firefighter!

We offer free training including New York State courses in Firefighting, Emergency Medical Technician and Hazardous Materials to name a few.

Click on the title of this article to visit the link and watch the video on becoming a Volunteer Firefighter.

For information, email info@stormkingfire.org, call the Fire Station at 534-2841 or stop by any Wednesday night at 7pm. Applications for membership are available by clicking on the title of this news article.

Children in the Cornwall Central School District may join the Storm King Explorer Post. Boys and Girls at least 14 years old, completing 8th grade and under 21 years of age are eligible for membership. Contact Nancy Bryan for information by emailing nbyran3900@aol.com.

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