Rangers to monitor wooded area burnt by Friday’s brush fire
By NATHAN BROWN, Enterprise Staff WriterSARANAC LAKE - A forest fire that started Friday afternoon behind the National Grid substation on state Route 30 in Paul Smiths was finally extinguished on Saturday.
"We were there until dark on Friday," said Paul Smiths-Gabriels Fire Chief Roger Smith. "We came back on Saturday morning and spent the day back there."
The fire was about a half-mile southeast of Paul Smith's College. An "All Call" was issued by the Franklin County emergency dispatch center Friday afternoon, summoning every fire department in the county to help fight the blaze, which affected a nine-acre wooded area. Smith said seven or eight departments from Franklin County assisted on Saturday. The Lake Placid and Bloomingdale volunteer fire departments from Essex County assisted both days.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Smith said, at one point on Friday, the flames were so high they reached the tops of the trees. As the entire area was forest, there was no property damage. One Paul Smiths-Gabriels volunteer had to be hospitalized for smoke inhalation. He was treated and released from the hospital.
The situation is still being monitored to make sure the fire doesn't reoccur.
"Crews went back in on Sunday, and it's going to be monitored by forest rangers over the next three days," Smith said.
Contact Nathan Brown at 891-2600 ext. 26 or nbrown@adirondackdailyenterprise.com.
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Nvouvier
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09-09-08 11:29 PM
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That firefighter that was treated for smoke inhalation was a SHE, thank you. Let's give some credit to this hard working , dedicated woman.
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benjamin
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09-08-08 7:50 PM
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Let it burn! Down with Smokey the Bear..... e-mail this article to Hugh Carson, famous firefighter OUT WEST in Western Colorado... @ airops@rmci**** Also say howdy to George Earl! and his hurricane kid, Gus
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