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January 18, 2008

Police Log: Jan. 19, 2008

STRUCTURE FIRE

AUSABLE FORKS -- Fire officials are investigating what sparked a raging fire inside an unoccupied mobile home early Friday morning.

AuSable Forks Fire Chief Jason Whisher said investigators were still trying to determine exactly how the vacant home at 102 Birchwood Drive became consumed by flames around 12:20 a.m. Friday.

Whisher said the home was fully engulfed when more than two dozen volunteers from the AuSable Forks, Keeseville and Rescue Hose No. 5 fire departments arrived to the area minutes after the blaze was reported.

Crews from the Jay Fire Department provided standby support at the local station during the early morning blaze.

Whisher said it was initially unclear who owned the property and said the charred structure appeared to have some items inside of it.

He said no firefighters were injured battling the fire, which was knocked down within 20 minutes of their arrival.

The home has been deemed a complete loss.

PERSONAL-INJURY ACCIDENTS

BANGOR -- A local woman was injured early Friday morning when the truck she was riding in went off the road, struck a tree and overturned.

Malone-based State Police said Alicia Almond, 21, was riding in a 1999 Ford pickup being driven by Thomas Avery II around 6:30 a.m. when the truck veered off the slick Route 3 roadway.

Almond complained of chest pain after the accident and was transported to Alice Hyde Medical Center.

Her condition was not immediately available Friday night.

Avery, 21, of Brushton, was not injured in the accident and was later ticketed for failure to keep right.

CONSTABLE -- Black ice sent a local driver careening off Route 56 Friday morning.

Malone-based State Police said Mary Reome was driving her van around 9 a.m. when she hit a patch of black ice and lost control, swerving across the road and into some trees.

The 53-year-old Constable woman suffered bruising to her chest during the accident and was transported to Alice Hyde Medical Center.

Her condition was not immediately available Friday night.

Police said no tickets had been issued in the accident as of Friday evening.

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