WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE. December 7, 2004, UPDATED December 8, 9:02 A.M. E.S.T.:  A number of families are evacuated from their apartments at 23 Old Mamaroneck Road, the scene of a third floor fire early Tuesday evening. Three families have been housed overnight by the American Red Cross and an undetermined number of other residents have found shelter with other family and friends.

Inspector Daniel Jackson of the White Plains Department of Public Safety told WPCNR this morning that the 22 apartments in the wing of 23 Old Mamaroneck Avenue were not inhabitable because the power and services had been cut to that part of the building. Jackson said the City of White Plains Building Department would be meeting with some of the residents at noon today to inform them on the status of the building and when they could return to their homes.. Inspector Jackson said he did not have information on the total residents left homeless by the fire.

Jackson said the alarm was phoned in at 4:36 P.M., and was fought  from the interior of the building. He said four residents were treated at White Plains Hospital Medical Center for smoke inhalation. No Fire Department personnel were injured Jackson said. No cause has been determined at this hour.

23 Old Mamaroneck Road on Shapham Place side, 8 A.M. Photo by WPCNR News

At about 5:15 P.M, WPCNR learned of a fire in progress in the vicinity of Mamaroneck Avenue School. Police Headquarters reported the fire is at 23 Old Mamaroneck Road. Police Scanner reports indicated the fire was on the third floor. A resident reported a very smokey atmosphere in the area, and as of 7 PM, a pungent acrid smokey odor could be smelled on the east side of the city. A motorist phoning in to WPCNR said traffic was  blocked off on Mamaroneck Avenue and in the Old Mamaroneck Road area, and that "the southend is in gridlock." The building was at 23 Old Mamaroneck Road a short distance from Nosband Avenue

Shapham Place View. Photo by WPCNR News

As of 9 P.M., the fire was reported out by Bob Reggio, the Coordinator for the American Red Cross. He said a number of persons had been evacuated from the building, and could not return. He reported an undetermined number of residents were able to find shelter with "family and friends," and that the Red Cross was housing three families they were "putting up for the night." As of 9 P.M., Reggio said he had six Red Cross volunteers in the Mamaroneck Avenue School  handling inquiries. 

Fire began on Third Floor. Closer View of the damage as of Wednesday morning. Photo by WPCNR News