Fire heavily damaged a house on Avenue D in Rochester this morning, but two people escaped with minor injuries. The fire broke out around 6:00 a.m. near the corner of Avenue D and Bradford Streets. A man jumped out a back window and a woman suffered a leg injury escaping from a second floor […]
A Rochester Fire Department spokeswoman says it was spontaneous combustion of textiles that caused a three-alarm fire Wednesday evening on St Paul Street. An automatic alarm went off shortly after 7:00 p.m. at the Alsco laundry and linen supply company at 548 St. Paul. Firefighters found smoke coming from the rear of the 65,000 square […]
Officials believe illegal fireworks caused a fire that damaged an apartment building on Arborwood Lane early Monday morning. The fire department says it broke out about 12:30 a.m. at the apartment off LaGrange Avenue. They say burning debris from a rocket fell into some bushes next to the building and set the brush on fire. The […]