Firefighters battled an intense house fire in Dutchess County that required a second alarm and help from multiple departments. The blaze began in Wappingers Falls just after noon on Sunday, Jan. 4, when Hughsonville firefighters were dispatched to 218 Old Hopewell Rd.

MANSFIELD - A two-alarm fire at a former church under construction on Stafford Road was controlled with the help of multiple surrounding area crews, officials said.

The fire originated on the first floor along the rear wall of the structure. The exact cause of the fire remains under investigation by the Troop L fire marshal unit, but no criminal activity is suspected. Damage was estimated are more than $300,000.

A basement fire prompted a multi-alarm response at a residential home in East Rutherford late Friday morning, Jan. 2, officials said. The East Rutherford Fire Department was dispatched at 11:23 a.m. to a report of smoke coming from the basement of a home on Prospect Terrace,

The Swiss bar that was engulfed in a deadly inferno on New Year’s Eve had no fire alarm and had not been inspected in the past five years, it has been revealed.

Smoke alarms save lives. They are everyone’s first line of defense against fires. But all too often, the Chattanooga Fire Department finds outdated and non-working smoke alarms in residents’ homes and that’s very dangerous. It puts their property and their safety at risk.

A three-alarm fire tore through a Kinnelon home Saturday morning, Dec. 27, destroying the residence and prompting a large emergency response.The fire broke out at approximately 11:45 a.m., at a home 7 Caitlin Court.

The fire was reported on Woodworth Road where firefighters were met with heavy flames coming from the home’s windows, Needham's fire chief said.