Wells News

Chloe Van Alstine's frigid water rescue in November has earned her more than the admiration of the community.

An upstate New York teenager is among the nearly two dozen people awarded Carnegie medals for heroism.

Authorities say workers may have falsified fire drill records at the state-run group home in the Adirondacks where a blaze killed four people in March.

ALBANY The Department of State Wednesday transmitted to the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities the report of the Fire, Building and Life Safety Code Applicability at the Riverview Individual Residential Alternative .

The fatal fire scene Saturday, March 21, 2009, at the Riverview IRA group home in Wells, Hamilton County.

The state Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities issued a news release Friday announcing a panel of state and national experts will begin meeting in July to study the agencya s a oecurrent policies, procedures and practices in the areas of fire safety for thoroughness and effectiveness.a Recommendations will follow and OMRDD ...

The March 21 fire at an Adirondack group home that killed four residents may have started on the structure's back porch, according to a sheriff's incident report obtained by the Times Union.

Gloria Bonilla, age 43, passed away suddenly on March 21, 2009. Gloria had been a resident of Speculator since 1985 and recently moved to her new home in Wells, NY, at the Riverview IRA.

Four people were killed early Saturday after a fire broke out at a state-run group home for mentally disabled residents in upstate New York, the governor's office said.

The smoke alarm went off Saturday morning more than an hour before the sun would rise over the tall pines to the east.

Four people who lived in the Riverview Individual Residential Alternative in Wells died this morning after a fire at the group home.

Investigators are seen at Riverview IRA, a group home for disabled persons in Wells, N.Y. Saturday, March 21, 2009.

Four people living at a state-run group home in the Adirondacks were killed when a fire broke out at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, inundating the house with smoke and flames, the authorities said.

The investigation continues this weekend into a tragic fire in the Hamilton County town of Wells that occured around 5:30 Saturday morning.

WELLS, N.Y. - Four of the nine residents of a state-run group home in the southern Adirondacks are dead after a fire gutted the home early Saturday morning.

Sacandaga River From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Sacandaga River is a river in the northern part of New York in the United States.

As of November, Adirondack Park property owners might need to think twice about adding that shiny, sunlit kitchen to their lakefront home.