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Cyberattack on Capital Region 911 concerns local officials | News, Sports, Jobs


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A cyberattack that disrupted 911 dispatching in the Capital Region did not hit counties in northeastern New York, but it gave them pause.
“It’s serious business, that’s for sure,” Essex County Emergency Services Director Don Jaquish said Wednesday.
“When you shut down a 911 facility, there’s not a lot of options left for the people,” Franklin County Emergency Services Director Ricky Provost said.
Clinton and Hamilton County emergency services directors also said their services were not affected.
It was around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday night that the ransomware attack took hold of the CAD (computer aided dispatch) system shared by Albany, Saratoga and Rensselaer counties, according to the Albany Times Union. Ransomware shuts down a system and holds it hostage until money is paid to whoever orchestrated the attack. Such attacks have done great damage in recent months to school districts and hospital systems, inclu ....

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Investigator: Fatal house fire started with ash bucket outside | News, Sports, Jobs


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A burned house at 47 Rockledge Lane in Saranac Lake is seen mid-afternoon Tuesday.
(Enterprise photo — Lou Reuter)
SARANAC LAKE Ashes from a wood stove had been put in a metal bucket, which was sitting in a metal wagon parked outside on the ground, up against the front porch. The bucket wasn’t covered. It was a windy day. Somehow, perhaps egged on by the wind, flames sprang up from the ash bucket in the middle of the night. The flames spread to the porch, and from there to the house.
That is what Essex County fire investigators believe caused a fire early Monday morning that killed Carol Omar, the 77-year-old woman who lived by herself in the cottage at 47 Rockledge Lane, overlooking Moody Pond. ....

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Hotel fire probe focuses on heating unit | News, Sports, Jobs - Adirondack Daily Enterprise


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Flames spout from the vent of a second-floor room’s heating and air conditioning unit Tuesday afternoon at the Saranac Waterfront Lodge in Saranac Lake. The hotel had opened just seven weeks ago.
(Enterprise photo — Lou Reuter)
Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department Chief Brendan Keough points to the wall above the area where a blaze appears to have started in a second-floor room at the Saranac Waterfront Lodge Tuesday afternoon.
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SARANAC LAKE The Saranac Waterfront Lodge’s insurance company will do a forensic investigation around a heating and air conditioning unit that appears to be where a blaze began Tuesday afternoon in one of the new hotel’s rooms. ....

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