It’s quite a bad fire, I think two houses are gone , she said. A police cordon at the scene (Photo: Lisa Lorton) Another person who lives opposite to the homes, Grace Simmons, said the two houses affected had severe damage . Two houses had severe damage (Photo: Nathan Louis) Fire services across Hertfordshire – including a crew Hertford -– were called to the scene. A police cordon at the scene (Photo: Grace Simmons) And hours later, cordons remain place in Sparrows Herne from Larkin Drive up until Elstree Road. A police cordon at the scene (Photo: Nathan Louis) The
Observer has been told there are no injuries, but a crime scene is in place as emergency services work to determine how the fire started.
MONROE - Kiryas Joel plans to create a shortcut to Route 17 for drivers headed to and from the village by building a road connection that would bypass a bottleneck in neighboring Monroe.
The new road segment would be built on a 22-acre land strip in Monroe that Kiryas Joel and the Ezras Choilim Health Center bought last month for $4.3 million. The health center, which is located in Kiryas Joel, contributed to the purchase because it is said to be considering building a new medical facility on part of that land.
The road is a piece of a longer parallel road that was conceived more than 15 years ago and shelved for lack of funding for the work, last estimated to cost $30 million. That overall project was known as the Larkin Drive Extension and would stretch a mile and a half next to Route 17 across Monroe, from Route 208 to County Route 105.