02/08/2026
Around 4:30am this morning, Schodack Valley Fire received a call, along with our initial mutual aid partners, Castleton Fire, Schodack Landing Fire, South Schodack Fire, and Castleton Ambulance, for a report house on fire on Maple Hill Road. Schodack Valley Cars 2 & 3 quickly arrived on scene and confirmed a working structure fire. A 2nd alarm was called bringing in addition units from East Greenbush Fire, East Schodack Fire, Nassau Fire, and Nassau Ambulance. The extreme cold created many challenges including freezing equipment and increased firefighter fatigue, prompting calling in additional resources from Best Luther Fire and Clinton Heights Fire to rotate crews out. Rensselaer County Highway Dept. was also quick to arrive on scene and provided road salt for the freezing water on the roadway.
Cover assignments were provided by Defreetsville FIre, Stuyvesant Fire, Niverville Fire, and Kinderhook Fire. A separate call for a structure fire, a reported oven fire, was received later in the morning. The call was quickly handled by the cover companies and returned shortly to previous cover assignments.
Support was also received from the Town of Schodack Building and Water Dept. and the Villiage of Castleton Water Dept. Also a thank you to Ditonno Demolition for providing excavation services to help extinguish the fire.
The cause of the fire is under investigation by our partners, the City of Rensselaer Fire Investigation team. A THANK YOU to all who responded this cold morning!
