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DEFERIET, N.Y. (WWNY) - âWe only have 4 people that are within close enough time to get a truck out the door within the 2 minute allotted state time,â said Richard Montroy.
Itâs a problem that Montroy, a volunteer firefighter for the Deferiet Fire department, says his department deals with daily.
Montroy says the department has 15 volunteers that live within a 10 mile radius of the station but they are trying to bring that number up.
CHAMPION â Smoke detectors were still ringing out through an empty and damaged farm house Wednesday morning, hours after fire crews were called to the scene.
At about 2:30 a.m., the West Carthage Fire Department was dispatched to a home at 33720 Route 126 just outside Champion. Crews arrived on scene and flames were showing out the back side of the house. Fire Chief Peter Crump Jr. said there was one woman inside at the time of the fire who had already gotten out safely upon their arrival.
The fire started in the chimney and spread through what appeared to be an attic across the top of the house. Firefighters made a quick hit on the flames by entering the home and containing the flames from much of the rest of house.