Liberty, NY +Working Fire In Camp+
Sullivan County, Liberty, NY +Working Fire In Camp+ A working fire at Upper Ferndale Road - Camp Agudah, Fire Department on the scene calling all hands to work on arrival and requesting additional M/A companies to the scene, all companies are heavily engaged.
Hatzolah BLS also on the scene and requesting additional BLS and ALS units, they have one aided that jumped from the roof of the burning private dwelling and sustained injuries, and five additional aided trapped including two babies on the roof working on removing them, Medivac has been placed on stand by.
U/D: 04:01
Hatzolah and Fire Department rescued all trapped from the building and are now treating two aided for burns. Fire Department is calling for a 2nd Alarm, and the fire is D/W/H.
U/D:
Aided that jumped off the building was Medivaced.
The main building, kitchen, lunchrooms, apartments and offices burned down.
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 6/22/2006 03:47:00 AM
44 Comments:
At 6:43 AM,
Anonymous said…
Camp Agudass main building is gone the lunchroom offices bais medrash kitchen are allgone reporting live
At 7:39 AM,
Anonymous said…
Great job by B213 Getting all the resources together
At 7:45 AM,
Anonymous said…
WILL THEY OPEN NEXT WEEK? Do we have to register our kids in another camp? Anyone know what the Camp's opinion is?
At 7:49 AM,
Anonymous said…
A fire inside the well known camp Agudah broke out at about 3:30 last night .There were 5 people rescued from the burning building including 2 babies . One person was trapped and had to jump he was choppered out with severe bone damage but B'H he survived .The part of Camp that burnt down is their main building including there Kitchen ,Dining rooms,Offices ,Apartments,
Wow how news could change over night .Good job Liberty Fire Dept. We all thank you for your hard work
At 8:02 AM,
Anonymous said…
I don't know what you are talking about, about the hard work of the Liberty Fire Dept., don't know who you talked to but I was there and they "hardly worked" beside coming so late and after so many calls, Hatzolah on the other hand responded within seconds even dough they are not fully there yet before the summer season even started.
At 9:16 AM,
Anonymous said…
moderator please remove the previous comment as it will only result in a chillul hashem
At 9:52 AM,
Anonymous said…
any pictures of the damage?
At 10:01 AM,
Anonymous said…
PLEASE EDIT CATSKILL RESIDENTS COMMENT IT WILL CAUSE A CHILLUL HASHEM AND MORE "LOVE" TOWARDS US THIS SUMMER. THAT IS WHY YOU ARE THE MODERATOR...TO MODERATE THINGS
At 10:17 AM,
Anonymous said…
the camp has delayed their opening for a week,, and knowing Mayer Frishman,
he will have a new building up in no time
At 10:23 AM,
Anonymous said…
any pic. of damage
At 10:25 AM,
Anonymous said…
Lipa where are you, are you asleep, we need some pictures.
At 11:06 AM,
Anonymous said…
קעמפ אגודה הייסט די גרעסטע קעמפ אין די ישיבה'שע וועלט
At 11:44 AM,
Anonymous said…
why is it a chillul hashem? one post says they did a good job. another one says they did not. is one not entitled to his opinion? is this some kind of official communication where the community has to speak in one voice? this is a blog where every genious/idiot is entitled to his own opinion. if you don't like it then post your own opinion.
At 11:59 AM,
Anonymous said…
MY OPINION IS THAT YOU opinionated dummy ARE THE IDIOT IF YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY THE POST SHOULD BE REMOVED.
At 12:15 PM,
Anonymous said…
There is a Rebone Shel Oylom
Meir Frishman Kaufman and Karfoil are METZAIR the children who go there They put them down and this is the REBONI SHEL OLOM way of saying to KARFOIL and KAUFMAN
STOOOOP SOYN GENUG
At 12:31 PM,
Anonymous said…
EXCUSE ME! WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?
At 12:34 PM,
Anonymous said…
Whayt Happened To The Sefer Torahs?
At 12:43 PM,
Anonymous said…
Dear Moderator,
Anonyomous at 12:15 is exactly why you should be moderating...
At 12:56 PM,
Anonymous said…
the whole three floor building is down to the ground they are getting pavement there a/s/ap & they are putting up a big tent so that there will be a lunch room for this summer
At 1:09 PM,
Anonymous said…
who is the bocher that jumped out of the window?
At 1:14 PM,
Anonymous said…
Cna anyone clarify when camp will start and agudah has the best staff
At 1:15 PM,
Anonymous said…
hey, anon 11:59 isn't it great living in a democracy?
At 1:38 PM,
Anonymous said…
Sifrei Torah!?!?!?
it was a lunchroom/kitchen/mainhouse/office building that burnt down.
At 1:41 PM,
Anonymous said…
Is this the camp KOLKO was part of or associated with????
At 2:06 PM,
Anonymous said…
how do u post pics
At 2:36 PM,
Anonymous said…
can somebody please post some pics
At 3:13 PM,
Anonymous said…
i have 2 pics how do i post them
At 6:24 PM,
Anonymous said…
any new info of when camp is opening etc.?
At 8:24 PM,
Anonymous said…
camp is opening next monday iy'h
At 9:38 PM,
Anonymous said…
4 minutes is excellent.
At 11:02 PM,
Anonymous said…
B'H no one was seriously injured and if it was meant to happen, better now then next week. Its all Byedei Hashem
May Hashem grant all a happy and safe summer!
At 11:07 PM,
Anonymous said…
B'H no one was seriously injured.
If it was meant to be, better now then next week.
May Hashem grant us all a happy and safe summer!
Hatzlacha to everyone involved in the clean-up
At 12:27 AM,
Anonymous said…
jeez i wish ppl would know what they r talking about b4 posting anything. yes there was a bais med that burned down, yes FD did their job, yes Mayer will take care of things.
and for the love of G-d if you have an issue w/ any rabbis from CA this is not the place to scream at them, go get therapy you self centered jerk!
At 7:40 AM,
VOS IZ NEIAS said…
4 saved from inferno One man jumps from camp roof.
Liberty - Firefighters call it a miracle rescue.
Five people, including a young couple with two toddlers, escaped with their lives early yesterday when an intense, fast-moving fire ripped through a main building at a religious summer camp.
Chesky and Adina Richman of Monsey and their 15-month-old twins, along with another young man, Aryeh Friedman, were asleep on the second floor when the fire broke out at Camp Agudah. The smell of smoke awakened them.
In the dark and smoke, the couple got their children. They and Friedman managed to escape to a second-story roof on the 3½-story building. But there was no way to get down, and they were trapped as the building burned beneath them.
Liberty firefighters got to the camp just four minutes after the 3:31 a.m. call to 911.
"There was so much smoke, you couldn't see the building from the parking lot," fire Chief Lynn Morgan said.
Firefighters threw ladders against the building where the five were stranded, and climbed up to rescue them.
Mrs. Richman balked.
"She wouldn't come down the ladder at first because she wanted to carry the babies in her arms," said Dick Martinkovic, the county's public safety commissioner. "But you can't do that. She had to hand the babies down."
Morgan said Friedman jumped in the chaos and suffered a broken leg or pelvis when he hit the ground. He was flown to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla.
The fire leveled the 9,000-square-foot building in about 45 minutes.
Martinkovic said the 1920s-era wooden building had been renovated a number of times, creating voids and hidden pockets where flame hides.
With the people safe, about 100 firefighters from Liberty, White Sulphur Springs, Neversink, Loch Sheldrake, Livingston Manor, Monticello and Hurleyville trucked in water from village and town hydrants, and provided more firefighters to rotate crews.
"It was a very warm morning, and the adrenaline is flying when there are (trapped) people involved," Morgan said.
By morning, little was left of the main building. A hall just behind it used for prayer and study was badly damaged, but nothing else at the camp was touched.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, but doesn't appear suspicious, Morgan said.
By noon yesterday, excavators were already on-site cleaning up the smoldering wreckage.
Amid the damage were dozens of large cans of food, some of the summer supplies that had arrived over the past few days.
The camp is scheduled to open on Wednesday.
"If it had been next week, there would have been a lot more babies in there," said a camp employee who gave only his first name, Eli. "It would have been problematic."
The building housed the camp's kitchen, dining room, offices and some staff quarters.
Camp manager Meir Frischman was already coordinating the job of finding temporary space to replace the burned building and to make up for the ruined supplies.
The Orthodox Jewish religious camp expects about 500 boys, ages 8 and up, to attend this summer.
"We are going to open," said Rabbi Shlomo Gertzulin, vice-president of Agudath Israel of America, the organization that owns this camp and others.
"We've got a lot of good people pitching in to help."
A recording at Agudath Israel's New York City offices said the camp will open on July 3. The camp is asking parents to fill out new paperwork, because the forms were lost in the fire.
At 9:31 AM,
Anonymous said…
I'll miss the old place. I remember it from 50 years ago!!
At 12:22 PM,
Anonymous said…
dear editor
You are the hatzolah of news.before anyone knew about the fire in camp agudah you were there!!!!!
At 1:32 PM,
Anonymous said…
all those memories gone!
and the color war banners in the lobby!!
At 6:16 PM,
Anonymous said…
to the fool who feels bad about the camp banners and the ignorant one who said no one was badly hurt, why dont you call westchester medical center and find out if the young father of 2 who has quite a few broken bones and on heavy pain meds would agree with you
At 7:02 PM,
Anonymous said…
and how about the old smelly non airconditioned phone booths?? Or Davey Johnson being asked to come to the pitchers mound? Or Skiing on the baseball field in 10 minutes (after a hail storm)??
At 10:08 PM,
Anonymous said…
i know a coupla guys going up to help set up camp-agudah staff is the best
At 12:15 AM,
Anonymous said…
Camp Agudah will be stronger and better then ever, Meir will make it an obligation of his to make it more "gishmak" enviornment, including better meals and activities, I also think we parents should not accept the refunds that camp plans to give, they need the cash and they deserve it as well
At 4:23 PM,
Anonymous said…
there will be a new building up in no time
At 4:27 PM,
Anonymous said…
any pic?
At 4:29 PM,
Anonymous said…
meir will have a building up in no time
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