eizzo@adirondackdailyenterprise.com LAKE PLACID Big Mountain Deli and Creperie on Main Street was temporarily closed on Friday for minor repairs after a small electrical issue. A Big Mountain Deli employee arrived at work early Friday morning and found an outlet in the restaurant was smoking, owner Holly Healy said. Seventeen firefighters from the Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department responded to the restaurant at 6:59 a.m. The Lake Placid Police Department also responded. The fire department investigated, and the outlet was taken out, inspected and replaced. The business is expected to reopen Saturday, according to Healy. “We thank everybody for their sense of urgency and the outstanding response,” Healy said.
aflynn@lakeplacidnews.com Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department member Mathieu Castonguay, kneeling, joins other firefighters from around the region on the roof of the former Adirondack Medical Center building in Lake Placid during a training exercise in October 2020. (Provided photo Art Devlin) Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department member Mathieu Castonguay, left, climbs a ladder to the roof of the former Adirondack Medical Center building in Lake Placid during a training exercise in October 2020. (Provided photo Art Devlin)
Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department member Mathieu Castonguay, left, climbs a ladder to the roof of the former Adirondack Medical Center building in Lake Placid during a training exercise in October 2020. (Provided photo Art Devlin)
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LAKE PLACID Four teens have been charged with felonies after allegedly breaking into the former W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center and vandalizing the place in November. The only one of them named by New York State Police was Remi P. Borden, a 19-year-old from Lake Placid. The other three are 18 years old. New York State Police Troop B Public Information Officer Jennifer Fleishman told the News on Friday, Jan. 22 that State Police initially responded to the facility on Old Barn Road on Nov. 22, 2020, after the fire alarm was triggered. The Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department was first on scene and found broken windows, spray paint on the walls and used fire extinguishers.
acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com Smoke pours from an apartment window at 4 Baker St. Monday night.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone) While onlookers congregate outside, members of the Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department use their aerial ladder truck to inspect an apartment building at 4 Baker St., Saranac Lake, while putting out a fire that started just after dark Monday evening.
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Smoke pours from an apartment window at 4 Baker St. Monday night.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone) SARANAC LAKE The Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department quickly extinguished flames spouting from the window of an apartment house at the corner of Park Avenue and Baker Street just before 5 p.m. Monday.
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Two Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department members, including Codey LaPage, spray water into a heating-air conditioning unit for a second-floor room that caught on fire at the Saranac Waterfront Lodge Tuesday afternoon.
(Enterprise photo â Lou Reuter) SARANAC LAKE A fire sent flames up the side of the newly constructed Saranac Waterfront Lodge and filled one wing of the hotel with smoke Tuesday afternoon, but the Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department quickly extinguished it. The flames came from a second-floor bedroom’s heating and air conditioning unit with an exterior vent. Hotel Managing Director Anura Dewapura said the small fire started in the exterior wall of an unoccupied room around 1:25 p.m. He said the fire department was on the scene within minutes and that no injuries have been reported.