Coverage from the time describes a fire in a large pile of brush at the end of Clay Bird Lane, off Old Chappaqua Road, that Briarcliff Manor firefighters fought on September 30, 2014. This is the earliest fire in the compiled Clay Bird Lane fire photographic and source record. This page is a pointer, not a substitute — read the exhibits and sources before relying on anything here.
Read the documents
- September 2014 photographic record (PDF, 3 pages) — Exhibits 5, 6 and 7 of the source record. Page numbers in the PDF are from the original 36-page compilation.
What the exhibits show
All three are photographs from The Journal News / LoHud coverage, with the publication’s caption visible in each image:
Briarcliff firefighters battle a fire in a large pile of brush at the end of Clay Bird Lane off Old Chappaqua Road in the town of Mt. Pleasant Sept. 30, 2014. Several neighboring departments also responded with tanker trucks shuttling water to the scene.
The photos show a ladder truck working over a smoking pile, a ladder platform with firefighters, and a foreground of large logs.
Other sources
- Croton-on-Hudson Fire Department, “Tanker 10 Mutual Aid to Briarcliff Two Days in a Row” (dated September 29, 2014 in the source index): crotonfd.org. The source record lists it as the fire-department source for the two-day 2014 mulch and yard-waste fire and the mutual-aid roster.
- The compiled timeline lists this fire as September 30 – October 1, 2014, from news sources, and notes that it is not in the county’s records, which begin November 20, 2014.
Related
- All fires in the source record: overview and source index
- Next fire response in the timeline: November 20, 2014