A large brush fire in Rockland County scorched acres of land Friday, with flames close enough to melt siding off of a home. NickJCaloway reports.
As CBS2's Nick Caloway reports, officials say a fire in the Congers area luckily burned itself out but not before it caused damage to several homes."It was fast-moving. We had virtually every fire department in Rockland County respond, but they were also responding up north to the other two fires. So certainly a bit of a concern.
The oldest resident that we had to evacuate was a 98-year-old lady right at the edge of Alpine, and the fire came right up to her backyard. She had a very small backyard. So thankfully -- there are a few injuries, we had a couple of firefighters that suffered heat exhaustion, they're wearing very heavy canvas equipment, you know, in very warm day -- but thankfully, no major injuries either," Clarkstown Supervisor George Hoemann said.
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