Dozens of Rochester-area firefighters tackled a three-alarm fire at a boarded-up building on St. Paul Street early Sunday morning. The fire at 2100 St. Paul was immediately upgraded to a third alarm because fire was showing on three sides of the building, and it had already been a busy night for Rochester firefighters. They […]
A man was seriously injured in a two-alarm fire early this morning when a house at 170 Myrtle Street in Rochester went up in flames. The Rochester Fire Department says the fire was reported at 12:52 a.m. Crews arrived to find a two-family house fully engulfed in flames and starting to spread to the […]
The Rochester Fire Department went to Rochester’s Urban Park Apartments ready for a hazmat situation today…and found the odor that was making people cough and burning their eyes was from someone microwaving hot peppers. Microwave some kinds of peppers…and they give off capsaicin, the same chemical that’s in pepper spray. Before they realized […]