Lana Bellamy

lBellamy@th-record.com

CITY OF NEWBURGH - A three-alarm fire at 69 Townsend Ave. on Thursday severely damaged a two-family home.

Nobody, firefighters included, was hurt during the incident, said Newburgh fire Chief Bill Horton.

The cause of the fire was undetermined as of 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

Firefighters were called to a fire in the back of the two-and-a-half story, wooden multi-family home at 2:01 p.m., Horton said.

The third alarm was called less than 15 minutes later.

"There was a tremendous amount of fire on all three levels," Horton said.

Everyone who was home at the time safely evacuated the building, Horton said, and both families have somewhere to stay for now.

The house did not burn down, but at a minimum, the back of the structure will have to be rebuilt and the inside gutted, said Horton, who noted the property was up to date with its inspections.

The fire did not extend to the buildings on either side of 69 Townsend.

Good Will, New Windsor, West Point and Castle Point fire departments, two Mobile Life Supports ambulances and two Orange County deputy fire coordinators assisted the City of Newburgh at the scene.

Cronomer Valley and Orange Lake fire departments covered other city fire calls.