Fire destroys Monticello Broadway shops total $60,000 loss
A midnight blaze gutted Graper's Food Market a butcher shop and a closed Charcoal Pit restaurant on Broadway Monticello causing an estimated $60,000 in damages. Fire Chief Henry Stratton called the blaze suspicious as Fallsburg and Rock Hill units stood by and officials weighed urban renewal implications for demolition.
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Monticello
Henry Stratton
Carl Bogner
Graper’s Food Market
Morris Shilowitz
Louis Rosenthal
Charcoal Pit
Rosenthal
Shilowitz
Jimmy Edelman
Jimmy
Broadway
Fallsburg
Rock Hill
Utiility Company
Bogner
Thomas S. Belmont
Donald Block
Fire guts Carmil Fashions plant at Port Jervis
A late night blaze gutted the Carmil Fashions factory on Church Street Port Jervis leaving only walls and about 35 workers out of work. Fire crews fought the three and a half hour blaze amid smell of smoke and shredded cloth debris. Building owned by Hyman Miller of Port Jervis. Carmil operator Philip DiMilla of Middletown.
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Port Jervis
Carmil Fashions, Inc
Church Street
John R. Hosking
Hosking
Hyman Miller
Philip DiMilla
Middletown
Carmil
Four Children Die in Poughkeepsie Apartment Fire
A Poughkeepsie blaze killed four children who were left alone in a first floor apartment. Frank Hudson 15 Kenneth 13 James 5 and Addie 3 perished as fire swept the unit while two sisters Pearlie 17 and Barbara 12 escaped. Police said the fire began about eight in the morning after parents left to drive the husband to work. The second floor family also escaped and investigators probe the blaze cause.
Flamesburn Pa post office and store damaged by large fire
Fire departments from four volunteers took 3 1/2 hours to control a blaze that severely damaged Brown's Store and the Galilee post office in Galilee Pa about eight miles from Callicoon N Y. Assistance came from Cochecton Lake Huntington and Equanook Pa. Five trucks fought the flames and water was pumped from a stream 350 feet away. The fire started in the basement and spread to upper floors. Fire officials said the cause was under investigation with no loss estimate yet. Post office supplies and equipment were saved and sent to Damascus for temporary operation.
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Galilee
Brown’s
Callicoon
N.Y
Cochecton
Lake Huntington
Equanook
Mills
Charles Mills
Damascus
Smoke Over Hurleyville Claims Fallsburg Chief's In Law
Mrs. Mary Farber, 53, was overcome by smoke at her Columbia Drive home in Hurleyville early Thursday. Fallsburg Police Chief Seymour Farber and Louis Greenspan administered oxygen after firemen extinguished a blazing mattress. The family doctor was called and she remained at home after emergency treatment.
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Hurleyville
Mary Farber
Columbia Drive
Fallsburg
Seymour Farber
Louis Greenspan
Farber
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Charlie Crist
Carmil Fashions Factory
Carmil Fashions Clothing
Polip Blaze
Flamesburn Pa
Smoke
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