Pleasant Valley apartment complex fire brings out large response

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West Road fire. (C) Mid-Hudson News 2021

PLEASANT VALLEY – A two-alarm fire in a Pleasant Valley apartment complex just before 10 a.m. on Wednesday brought several fire departments to the West Road complex.

 

The Pleasant Valley Fire Department responded to the West Road apartments at approximately 9:44 a.m. where heavy black smoke was billowing from a basement apartment.  A caller had reported that an elderly man was trapped inside the apartment.  Neighbors were able to evacuate the building, including the trapped man before firefighters arrived.

Firefighters removing one of the rescued cats.

 

The fire spread from the basement apartment to the apartment above it and dozens of firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze and search all of the apartments to ensure that everyone had been evacuated.

 

Several pet cats and dogs in the building were rescued by firefighters.

 

One person was reported to have been transported to the hospital.

 

Assisting Pleasant Valley were the Arlington, East Clinton, Roosevelt, Arlington, Union Vale, Millbrook, and LaGrange fire departments.  Mobile Life provided ambulance support.

 

The cause and origin of the fire are under investigation.




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