oneonta fire department

It's time to learn how to prevent a fire in your home BEFORE tragedy strikes!

Officials are investigating the cause of the fire

This is NOT real! It's just an exercise.

Be prepared for potential basement flooding

A fire Tuesday afternoon destroyed a single family residence at 89 Ford Avenue in the City of Oneonta.

UPDATE (12:19 p.m.): A fire was called into the Oneonta Fire Department early Monday morning.  I later took a walk up to 5 Cherry Street to see what happened.  Those recent photos are below. Fire personnel and neighborhood residents on the scene told me that the house was unoccupied at the time and that no injuries, to firemen or others, were reported...

Have you seen the new tribute to legendary Oneonta Fire Chief Francis "Cootie" Russo? Well, a new children's playground is rising on the grassy plain of the well-used 6th Ward Booster Club Field off River Street.  While an official opening of the playground is still a short time away (July 2), I just had to go and see it for myself...

Francis "Cootie" Russo, the longtime Oneonta Fire Chief, passed away this weekend. There has been no public statement as to how Russo died.

This week, as everybody knows by now, there was a dorm fire at SUNY Oneonta.  A "dorm room fire."  Sounds kind of over dramatic doesn't it?  Just a dorm room fire. Maybe an errant candle.  Or a tossed cigarette butt. The fire was extinguished in a half hour...