AMENIA — A house fire erupted on the third floor of an apartment building at 5 Broadway St. near Fudgy's Ice Cream shop just after 3 p.m. on Monday, July 13.
No one was injured and no one was taken to the hospital in the blaze that erupted on the third floor of a four-unit apartment building.
A dispatch call alerting Amenia's Empress ambulance, the Amenia Fire Co. and the Wassaic Fire Co. to smoke in the building went out over the radio around 3:15 p.m.
Brody Howard, one of the Amenia Fire Co.'s junior members, reroutes traffic away from the emergency scene on Broadway just after the fire erupted on Monday, July 13.Photo by Nathan Miller
Medics confirmed the presence of a fire upon arriving on the scene, triggering a mutual aid response that brought fire crews from Millerton, Dover, Millbrook and Sharon, Connecticut, to the scene.
Amenia Fire Chief Chris Howard said he was awaiting the Dutchess County fire investigator around 4:30 p.m. and the cause of the fire had yet to be determined.
Fire crews battled the blaze for about an hour before the fire was extinguished. The fire damaged a protruding section of the roof in the rear of the building above the two-story back patio.
Once the fire was extinguished, firefighters could be seen crossing Broadway to visit Fudgy's for ice cream to help beat the heat of the fire and the summer sun.
A volunteer firefighter evaluates the ongoing smoldering fire from Amenia's ladder truck.Photo by Nathan Miller
