NYPA Thanks Emergency Services for Battle Against Fires

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Bob Hadler
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bob.hadler@nypa.gov

November 20, 2002

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LOWVILLE—The New York Power Authority distributed checks totaling $8,500 to 12 local fire departments and two of their auxiliaries as a “thank you” gesture for the efforts the companies made in fighting a transmission line right-of-way fire last August.

Robert Hadler, the Power Authority’s Community Relations Manager for Northern New York, presented the checks during the monthly Lewis County fire coordination meeting here.

“We appreciate the effort the various companies made in containing and extinguishing this fire,” said Hadler. “We also know that they used a lot of equipment and material and these donations will help them offset their operational costs.”

The Harrisville Fire Department and its auxiliary, the first responders to the fire, received $2,500. Fire Departments from Carthage, Natural Bridge, Beaver Falls, Great Bend, Fine, Lowville, Edwards, West Carthage, Town of Watertown, Deferiet and Croghan each received $500 grants. The Croghan auxiliary received an additional $500.

The fire on Aug. 14 involved nearly 20 acres of right-of-way land under the Power Authority’s Adirondack transmission line near Harrisville on the St. Lawrence and Lewis Counties border.