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Fully Involved House Fire In Speigletown Lights Up The Night Sky

This article is a direct street report from our correspondent and has not been edited by the 1st Responder newsroom.

On July 1, 2025, at 1:47 AM, the Speigletown Fire Department along with mutual aid from the Mountain View Fire Department, Raymertown Fire Department, Pittstown Fire Department, Center Brunswick Fire Department, Pleasantdale Fire Department, Melrose Fire Department and Schaghticoke Fire Department was dispatched to 9 Tucker Pond Road for multiple calls reporting the house to be fully involved. Raymertown car two called in route and was notified that the occupants of the home were all out of the structure. As the chief was responding to the scene, in the night sky a significant glow lit up the sky over Fogerty Road. The chief and a deputy arrived on scene and immediately notified the dispatcher that the house was fully involved and transmitted the signal thirty. The significant heat coming off of the house that was on fire could be felt up to 100 feet away from the home.


Deputies were able to confirm everybody was out of the home. The first arriving engine on scene immediately discharged its master stream into the structure quickly knocking down a significant portion of the heavy fire. An additional engine tanker arrived on scene and laid in a supply line from the roadway at the top of the hill to the scene. Firefighters began to pull multiple hand lines up the driveway and down the side of the house and began to knock down some of the heavy fire. Additional apparatus quickly began to arrive on scene and established a water supply operation at the top of the hill. As a steady supply of water float into the scene firefighters continue to utilize multiple hand lines in the front driveway area of the structure and along the delta and alpha side of the structure.


Firefighters continued to knock down the significant fire condition inside of the building as they were doing so, they began to conduct extensive overhaul of the destroyed home. Firefighters continue to work until the early hours of the morning. No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire has not been released publicly.


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JEFFREY BELSCHWINDERSenior Correspondent

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