The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/fire/page/2/)
As the world witnessed the Notre-Dame Cathedral, a marker of centuries of French history crumble over in fire, one Cornellian was on the ground battling to save the historic structure.
“There was considerable damage to the building, but no one was injured,” director of Cornell AgriTech Jan Nyrop said in a statement.
A blaze filled a Summerhill apartment laundry room Saturday afternoon after flames were sparked by a buildup of lint, according to an Ithaca Fire Department press release.
Though the Woolsey Fire is expected to be contained by Thursday, the Camp Fire in Butte County in Northern California is the deadliest and most destructive fire in California’s history.
The cause of fire was undetermined. According to the press release, the firefighters struggled to find the best way to access the flame and used about 500 feet of hose to extinguish the fire.
Firefighters rescued a cat and treated it with a pet oxygen resuscitation mask as they drove it to the Cornell Companion Animal Hospital, where the cat died of its injuries.
Firefighters and officers respond to call about blazing tractor trailer whose fire spread to nearby Agway supply store.
The house sustained some minor structural damage, according to Apgar, centered around the upstairs fire escape and deck.
Ithaca and Trumansburg Fire Departments responded to a TCAT bus on fire Friday afternoon. No injuries were reported.
The male firefighter, who has not been identified, had “an elevated heart rate issue” but was out of the hospital by Sunday and is doing well.