Large house fire in Newburgh draws major mutual-aid response
A Cronomer Valley house fire on Centurion Court turned into a countywide response in minutes, forcing tankers, a porta-tank and mutual aid from Orange and Rockland crews.
Flames and smoke rolling from a home on Centurion Court in Cronomer Valley pushed the Cronomer Valley Fire Department to call a second alarm at 4:50 p.m. Sunday, June 21. Three residents got out before the fire spread farther, and Town of Newburgh EMS evaluated them before they declined medical treatment. Another verified report placed the house off Fostertown Road near Hinchcliffe Drive and Peter Avenue, underscoring how quickly the blaze became a major call in a residential section of Newburgh.
The street’s dead-end layout made the response more complicated. Crews brought in tankers and set up a porta-tank to maintain a temporary water supply, then stretched multiple hand lines to attack the fire while the Cronomer Valley ladder truck poured water on the structure.
Central Hudson was called to cut power to the building, and Town of Newburgh police and a town fire inspector also responded. The call drew in the Orange County fire coordinator and an Ulster County deputy fire coordinator, along with mutual-aid companies from across the region, including Orange Lake, Good Will, Plattekill, Middle Hope, Air Guard, Coldenham, Wallkill, Walden, Winona Lake, Modena, Marlboro, Cornwall and New Windsor. That kind of turnout is what turns a single-house fire into a regional public-safety operation when fire conditions, access and water supply all become problems at once.
One report identified one of the occupants as Julie Jenei, a kindergarten teacher at Fostertown ETC Magnet School, and support for her family began building soon after the fire. Another verified report said the home was destroyed. The Cronomer Valley Fire District says it covers 11 square miles in the Town of Newburgh, protecting thousands of residences and businesses as well as interstate highways, reservoirs, parks and government buildings, a wide footprint that helps explain why a fire on one dead-end street can pull in crews from several towns and counties so fast. The cause remains under investigation.
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