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BETHLEHEM — A detached garage at the rear of  202 Glenmont Road was “fully involved” on Sunday at 2:42 p.m. after Bethlehem Police received a report of the structure fire.
Residents were able to leave their home without injury, according to a Sunday evening release from the Bethlehem Police Department.

BETHLEHEM — An unnamed juvenile has been charged with arson and criminal mischief — both felonies — after starting a fire on Monday at 45 Beacon Road in Glenmont, police say.

BETHLEHEM — Two men have been charged after, police say, they falsely reported, on March 20, that a building was on fire.

Bethlehem Police and firefighters responded to a call at 8:05 that morning and found no fire.

BETHLEHEM — A family who lived at 485 Dawson Rd. in Bethlehem was displaced when their home caught fire on Monday Dec. 27.
The fire was reported by a motorist who “flagged down” a Bethlehem Police officer, alerting him to the fire at 6:43 a.m., according to a release from the police department.

BETHLEHEM — On Friday, a house fire took the life of a Bethlehem resident.

An autopsy was completed on Monday morning and the deceased occupant was identified as Michael F. Jeram, age 65. The cause of the fire was ruled not suspicious, according to a release from the Bethlehem Police.

GUILDERLAND — On Saturday, March 13, a fire in the west wing of Guilderland High School was contained in an art computer laboratory with some smoke damage nearby.

 “We’re 100-percent volunteer so most of us had to get home and get to work … You have to return to normalcy after helping a neighbor out all night long.”

ALBANY COUNTY — Jacob “Jake” Houck, with the Onesquethaw Volunteer Fire Company, and Gerald E. Paris Jr., Albany County’s fire coordinator, were each recently honored as Firefighter of the Year by the Albany County Volunteer Firefighters’ Association.

Chris VanPatten, whose family owned a Guilderland farmhouse for nearly a century, before selling it five years ago, was sad to see it burn on Friday.

Pangburn Road fire

NEW SCOTLAND — A one-story house on Pangburn Road caught fire on Monday, Aug. 17.

According to a release from the Albany County Sheriff’s Office, events unfolded this way:

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