Fire In Bath In The Early Morning Hours 

From Bath Fire Spokesman John Conrad:

Friday morning June 9th at 3:35 am the Bath Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to 3 East William Street in the Village of Bath for a possible structure fire reporting the building was filling with smoke. Bath Village and the Steuben County Sheriff's Department arrived on scene and went into the building reporting heavy smoke on the third floor and were evacuating tenants from the second and third floors from their apartments. The first floor are commercial businesses.

The first bath Fire Department officer arrived on scene to find heavy smoke conditions on the 3rd floor.  Assistant Chief Mike Fiordo immediately requested and engine from the Bath VA. Minutes later when Chief Matt Glashauser arrived on scene also reported heavy smoke seen on the third floor and requested a second alarm assignment which called in equipment and manpower from Bath VA Hammondsport, Kanona with Pulteney to stand by at their station and Savona to the Bath station. Bath Volunteer Ambulance also to the
scene.

The interior attack team made their way to the third floor to find heavy black smoke conditions down to the floor level and flames approaching them down the hallway. The attack team was able to push the fire back down the hall and into the original apartment which was fully engulfed with flames. Working their way through the apartment the main fire was extinguished and held to one apartment and the third-floor hallway. However, there extensive heat and smoke damaged throughout the building. The scene was declared under control at 4:21 am.

 

The Steuben County Fire Investigation Team was called to the scene for cause determination and the Red Cross to assisted the residents of the apartments. All units were back in service at 6:36 am with the Investigation Team still continuing their investigation.

 

Gov Hochul Sends D.E.C. Up To Canada

Governor Kathy Hochul sent a team of Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers assist with efforts to contain wildfires raging in eastern Canada. The governor says the D.E.C.’s team will join firefighters from New Hampshire and Maine, up in Quebec.  The hundreds of fires there, is what caused the smoke to come down here, in Steuben County.  (On that note, the air quality locally is better today.) 

 

Road Works Begins At 7pm, On I-86 Between Exits 41/42

The Department of Transportation is reminding you that road work starts on I-86 between exits 41 and 42 in Campbell at 7:00 tonight.  D.O.T. officials say that work will last till Monday morning, and that the offramp for eastbound traffic will be shut down too.  Officials say that there will be onsite detours. 

 

Allard: Inmate ChargedFor Weapon Inside Cell In Bath

Steuben County Sheriff Jim Allard reports that deputies charged a 35 year old inmate in the Steuben County Jail, a Painted Post man, who is accused of possessing a self-made knife-life weapon in his jail cell.  The charge is 1^st degree possessing dangerous prison contraband, and 4^th degree criminal possession of a weapon and criminal mischief.

 

PEF And SUNY Union Working Out Contracts With Gov