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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015 - 4:31 pm
It's been a horrible week for car crashes in the Catskills, with three separate collisions in the region resulting in fatalities since Sunday.  A crash killed four people around noon in the Ulster County village of Saugerties on Wednesday, Aug. 26,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 - 12:18 pm
A family of three, including an infant, was left homeless by a fire that completely destroyed their double wide trailer home on Oliverea Road in the Ulster County hamlet of Big Indian in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Jan. 14. The two parents, a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014 - 8:57 pm
A member of the Franklin Fire Department, Assistant Chief James Wilber, suffered a fatal heart attack while responding to a call Sunday morning. A public news release sent out by the Delaware County Department of Emergency Services stated that Wilber was... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 - 4:16 pm
Above: A couple of Cobleskill firefighters suited up for an ice rescue drill in the town of Summit on Saturday, Jan. 25. Photos by Sandra-Lynn White VanValkenburgh; reproduced with permission from Schoharie County Fire Wire & News.  If you fell... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 20, 2013 - 2:39 pm
A head-on collision between an ambulance and a pickup truck on Route 32 left a paramedic seriously injured early Saturday morning . The Mobile Life ambulance was traveling northbound on Route 32, driven by 43-year-old William Spadafora of Hurley, around 6... Read more
By Thornquist on Saturday, Apr. 13, 2013 - 9:19 am
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