Two adults and three children made it to safety without injuries when fire broke out in a home on Shelter Street Monday night. The Rochester Fire Department says the cause of the blaze in the three-family home was probably electrical, with the fire breaking out on the second floor. Crews searched the building and found […]
Police are investigating after the U.S. Coast Guard reported finding a body in the Genesee River Monday morning near the Charlotte Pier. The body was spotted about 8:30 a.m. by passing boaters, and the RPD is working with the Monroe County Medical Examiner to identify it. Police say it’s an adult male and it was […]
The Rochester fire department handled two blazes in quick succession on Sunday, one in a scrap yard and the other on the roof of a building on Lyell Avenue near Saratoga Avenue. The first fire broke out late morning in a pile of scrap metal at a yard on Steele Street. Staff assisted by using […]