A Rochester Fire Department Rope Rescue Team came to the aid of a couple who got stuck in the Genesee River Gorge at Maplewood Park after getting off the trail late Sunday afternoon. A spokeswoman says both the rope and water rescue teams were called out. The rope team lowered the man and woman down […]
The Rochester Fire Department says firefighters and the Rochester Police Bomb Squad removed a drum of gasoline from a vacant apartment building at 401 Ridgeway Avenue overnight. First responders closed off a section of Ridgeway until early this morning after a passerby smelled gasoline around the vacant brick building and reported it. Firefighters went in, […]
Two Rochester firefighters suffered injuries and were treated at the hospital Friday evening after a double house on Jay Street went up in a two alarm fire.. The fire department says its crews arrived at 888 Jay Street to find heavy fire coming from the front and west side of the two-and-a-half-story house, and the […]