the Enterprise staff Forest rangers with the state Department of Environmental Conservation responded to two search-and-rescue missions in the Adirondacks in the past week, both at the southern ends of the park.
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– On April 30 at 10:57 p.m., DEC’s Ray Brook dispatch received a call from Herkimer County 911 requesting forest ranger assistance in locating a 66-year-old man from Erieville, in Central New York. The man’s vehicle was located by family and New York State Police earlier in the day at his camp, but the man was nowhere to be found. Forest rangers along New York State Police using a drone, State Police K-9, the Town of Webb Police Department and Herkimer County agencies searched the area during the night with negative results.
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GLOVERSVILLE The owner and lone occupant of a home on Burdick Road is receiving assistance from the American Red Cross after a fire tore through the structure on Tuesday night.
The Meco Volunteer Fire Company was dispatched to 261 Burdick Road on Tuesday night for a reported structure fire was called in by the homeowner at approximately 7:54 p.m., according to Fulton County Emergency Management Director Steven Santa Maria.
Responding units, upon arrival, encountered a single-wide trailer home heavily engulfed in flames and requested additional assistance at the scene.
Air pack qualified crews from the Pleasant Square Volunteer Fire Company and Sir William Johnson Volunteer Fire Company responded with additional tankers. Members of the Sammonsville Volunteer Fire Department also responded to the scene with another tanker and the Caroga Lake Fire Department provided support on standby at the Meco station.