The fire started around 1 00 this morning. Again, this group of stores in mount vernon. Those stores include a deli, a laundromat and a pizza place. 40 firefighters now on scene from pelham and yonkers as well. The fire chief tells me each of these businesses have a separate roof. The fire essentially is hiding itself. It keeps jumping in between the separate roofs. They have to tear apart the separate roofs and try to get in there. Thankfully no firefighters have been injured, but that building that collapsed, it collapsed again about an hour into the fire starting, which firefighters tell me is very quick. That really surprised them. Thats rather quickly for a building to collapse . Extremely quickly. Upon arrival, again, we had a tremendous smoke pushing out, intense heat in the basement and it ran right across the roof into the other stores. Reporter thankfully, again, no one has been injured. No firefighters have been injured either, which is also good news. So you can see and par
Larry Eugene Keaffaber passed away on June 4, 2023, at the age of 61 from congestive heart failure and gastrointestinal hemorrhage. He was born in Wabash, India