Cornwall, NY – Multiple fire departments are fighting a huge blaze in upstate Orange County as a fire has engulfed the site of a former mill in Cornwall New York. The fire at 2 Mill Street is home to a candle manufacturer, and several food manufacturers, and there are reportedly several Jewish owned business at the site.
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More than 150 firefighters, police and emergency personnel have responded to the scene, and as of 12:40 this afternoon, the blaze had been upgraded to a four alarm fire as firefighters have called for more engines to battle the conflagration, made even more difficult by the weather, which is currently hovering at a frigid twenty one degrees.
The fire was reported at 10:50 AM and just thirty minutes later, the fire had already been upgraded to a three alarm fire with firefighters reportedly pulling back and taking a defensive stance against the flames.
As of this hour, Firefighters are unable yet to contain the fire.
The Times Herald Record is reporting, that smoke was reportedly seen more than 40 miles away at the Geoge Washington Bridge.
It is unknown if any injuries have been sustained in the fire.
No one was available to comment at the local fire department as all firefighters were out fighting the blaze.
Big rachmunas on them they had a major flood by the hurricane irene
They are a great company with really great people who do really great work. Im sure they will rebuild and be even better.
That’s D&W furniture. There a really great furniture store. owned by 2 kiryas Joel guys. Wish them all the best and I hope they at least had fire insurence….
D&W moved long time ago to Middleton
D&W has moved from there 2 years ago, this place has been empty since then, & nothing happened bh to any furniture from that company. Business going in as usual.
scanning orange county fd, sounds really big and bad
oh whew – bh – still a great company 🙂 – bh – happy to hear
Right down the street… debree’s falling in my yard. Smoke is huge and dark. It’s really bad.
unconfirmed: 10 ff are missing, partial roof collapse
it would be a tragedy if the businesses were run by goyim too
Its very sad
Smoke is seen from the hilltop near Target store in Harriman/Monroe which is about 8 miles South
10 F F are missing,??
Roof DID collapse! Not all of the buildings, but the main building where the fire started.
A major food business there and it looks like that’s the area of the building roasting, moved after the flood.