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.
(Enterprise photo â Lou Reuter
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.
Dec 30, 2020 Lenore (Newell) Leavitt, age 100, of Gabriels, died December 27, 2020, at Elderwood of Uihlein at Lake Placid. Lenore was a lifelong resident of the area, born in Saranac Lake on May 5, 1920, and growing up in Keeses Mills with her parents, Harold and Pauline (Campbell) Newell and four younger brothers. Lenore married William Leavitt on Saturday, June 26, 1943, at the Keeses Mills Presbyterian Church. Upon marrying Bill she moved to the Leavitt Farm in Gabriels, where she lived until moving to Saranac Village at Will Rogers in 2015. In 1943, she joined the First United Methodist Church in Saranac Lake where she was an active member until her death. On May 5, 2020, the wonderful staff and leadership at Will Rogers helped her celebrate her 100th birthday, a goal and highlight of her life.