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OLEAN — A few days a week — either before or after his shift with the Olean Fire Department — Daniel Gonska climbs the stairs of the Community Bank N....

HINSDALE — A Hinsdale family was shocked — some quite literally — to discover their residence had caught fire after being struck by lightning Monday n...

OLEAN — Despite a truckload of garbage catching fire, the smell wasn’t that bad — only a whiff of smoke remained Thursday at 225 Homer St. after Olean...

PORTVILLE — Multiple fire departments responded to a motorhome fire Thursday evening in Portville that fire officials consider suspicious. The Portvil...

HINSDALE — A wood stove-related fire damaged a private woodshop in Hinsdale but caused no injuries Thursday morning. The Hinsdale Volunteer Fire Depar...

State Sen. Catharine Young, R-Olean, presented awards to two Little Valley Fire Department volunteer firefighters during the Fire Company’s annual ban...

BUFFALO (AP) — A 7-year-old boy has died in an early-morning fire at his home in Buffalo and firefighters say other occupants were taken to the hospit...

OLEAN — A fire that broke out late Thursday night in a residence resulted in some smoke but no structural damage. Olean Fire Department responded to 6...

PORTVILLE —One woman was safely recovered from her house Friday afternoon. Westons Mills Fire Chief Will Smith said an uninjured elderly woman and her...

While we are pretty sure we solved the mystery of the old school bus lying overturned below Rock City Road in the town of Olean — it was used for a ma...

OLEAN — Firefighters responded to another apartment fire Tuesday night, however, authorities said they do not believe it is related to the city’s stri...

BUFFALO (AP) — Dozens of firefighters battled bitter cold conditions as well as flames when blazes broke out at two separate locations in the same Buf...

Fires have altered the makeup of Olean’s downtown business district, and that was the case Dec. 17, 1972 — 45 years ago today — when the so-called Cam...

ALLEGANY — A mobile home fire Tuesday afternoon along a rural route in Allegany caused agencies from across southeastern Cattaraugus County to respond...

OLEAN — When Lynn Anzivine arrived at the City of Olean Fire Department Tuesday, she was told the firemen wanted to present her organization, the Pink...

OLEAN — For the second time in less than three weeks, authorities discovered potentially hazardous chemicals upon responding to an Olean structure fir...

OLEAN — Local authorities, residents and landlords are on high alert after three recent apartment fires, the latest of which included a graffiti messa...

OLEAN — No injuries were reported in yet another structure fire in Olean early Wednesday morning. Olean city police and firefighters responded at appr...