Crime & Safety
Yorktown Heights Fire Leaves Several Senior Residents Homeless
Fire officials said the blaze was contained to a first-floor apartment, but smoke was a wider problem.
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY — A fire at the Beaver Ridge Apartments in Yorktown Heights Wednesday has left several senior residents homeless.
The Yorktown Heights Volunteer Fire Department said on Facebook that fire personnel from Yorktown, Mahopac Volunteer Fire Department and Bedford Hills Fire Department were sent around 12:30 p.m. to the apartment complex for a report of smoke in the building.
Yorktown fire officers were first to arrive and found a fire alarm activation and smoke in the rear hallways of the three-story complex.
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The first-floor apartment in which the fire began was secured and the fire knocked down, officials said.
A search was conducted of the numerous apartments in the smoke-filled hallways found many bed-bound and elderly people who were then sheltered in place or safely removed from the building.
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The Red Cross was assisting residents of the complex as needed, fire officials said.
About 11 people were taken to local hospitals, according to News 12.
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