Lake Mohegan News

MOHEGAN LAKE - Members of the Lake Mohegan Professional Firefighters fire union local will kick off their annual Toys for Tots drive Friday at their main headquarters on Route 6 as well as at three other fire stations.

An early morning fire at a manufacturer of medical screening instruments was caused by an electrical short on a refrigeration unit, the company said.

The Mohegan Lake Fire District has been issued violations by the state Department of Labor amid criticism from union firefighters that understaffing has led to injuries and risks to public safety.

It was daybreak on September 1, 1939. And my grandfather and I were seated next to the family radio in his summer house in Lake Mohegan, 40 miles north of New York.

YORKTOWN - Investigators have labeled as suspicious a spectacular three-alarm fire that destroyed a shuttered car dealership on Crompond Road, Lake Mohegan Assistant Fire Chief Brian Wolert said yesterday.

YORKTOWN - A spectacular 3-alarm fire at the former Curry Ford deadlership lit up the sky on Crompond Road in Yorktown early today.

Police in New York state said a woman who became stuck up to her waist in mud while chasing her pet cockatoo managed to dig herself out.