Man Lights Illegal Fireworks, Causing Large Brush Fire In Fairfield County, Police Say
A man has been charged with lighting illegal fireworks that caused a large brush fire to break out in Fairfield County, police say.
Steven Botelho, 38, of Fairfield was arrested on Monday, Aug. 24 in connection to the incident that happened earlier this summer.
At about 8:45 p.m. on Sunday, June 21, the Fairfield Police Department received numerous reports of aerial fireworks in the area of Chestnut Street/Kings Highway in Fairfield.
Patrol officers arrived on scene a short time later, and observed a large brush fire adjacent to the Metro-North train tracks, in a marsh…
Tropical Storm Isaias Update: 100K Without Power In Westchester; 2.5M Outages On East Coast
More 100,000 Westchester residents were left without power as Tropical Storm Isaias brought whipping winds approaching 80 mph swept through the region, leaving millions on the East Coast without power.
Con Edison crews are working to repair a total of 5,401 reported outages in Westchester, which is impacting 77,741 of their 360,045 customers. NYSEG is also reporting an additional 28,209 outages in Westchester.
Yonkers (7,937 outages) was hit the hardest by the storm, and there were more than 3,000 outages reported in New Rochelle (5,753), Greenburgh (4,466), Harrison (3,859), White Plains …
