Multiple Companies Respond to Early Morning Fire behind Port Chester Train Station

On Tuesday around 4:40am the Port Chester, NY fire Dept responded to a fire behind the Port Chester Train station at 46 Broad Street.

According to the Fire Dept, their Rescue 40 arrived on scene first and found heavy fire showing from the rear of a two-story vacant commercial building, with reports of possible people trapped inside.

A 10-75 notification of a working fire was transmitted assigning additional resources to the scene.

Members of the Ladder and Rescue companies immediately forced entry into the building and began searching for victims and the seat of the fire.

Members were met with heavy fire and a high heat /low visibility condition.

Fortunately, searches proved negative and members began to suppress the fire from the interior.

After approximately 20 minutes due to the fire conditions, members were pulled from the structure and began an exterior attack. Multiple hoselines and master streams were put into operation to keep this fire contained to the original fire building.

Port Chester Fire Dept said they were thankful to all the neighboring fire departments and emergency services departments that provided mutual aid including Greenwich, Rye Brook, Purchase, Rye, Town of Mamaroneck, Tarrytown, West Harrison, Harrison, Village of Mamaroneck, Westchester County Dept of Emergency Services, Port Chester Police Dept, Port Chester-Rye-Rye Brook EMS, Dobbs Ferry, Mount Kisco.

The fire was placed under control at approximately 8:30am.

It was just last year in April that another multi-alarm fire broke out in Port Chester on South Main Street near the intersection of Westchester Ave.That fire caused rail delays on Metro-North and shut down the intersection for many hours.