Crews Battle Christmas Eve Blaze

RENSELAERVILLE - Crews from numerous fire departments battled a fire at a small house in Rensselaerville on Christmas Eve.

At 4:26pm, Tri-Village along with Medusa and Rensselaerville and ACSO were dispatched to a working structure Fire in the 700 Block of Fox Creek Rd. Engine 33-21 arrived and made the attack followed by the crew of 18-20. Engine 27-11 took the roof to get it opened up. Although the fire was quickly brought under control, crews worked for almost three hours to open up this stubborn post and beam style building to extinguish the fire completely. 

Additional units and manpower from Livingstonville, Oak-Hill Durham and East Durham also assisted at the scene. The house was a small guest house, there were no injuries and no one was left homeless. 

Thank you to all the responders that selflessly gave up their Christmas Eve plans and celebration to respond to someone else’s emergency. It’s just what we do. 18 Tri-Village Firefighters responded.