BEACON (17 March 2010) - On March 15, at about 8:45pm, a full first alarm assignment was transmitted for a reported smoke coming from an apartment at 487 South Avenue. Upon arrival of Car 1 (33-1) Chief Jospeh, he reported an active fire in a first floor apartment of a 3 story brick 50 x 50 multiple dwelling. Companies stretched one line to knock down the fire and was able to knock down the main body of fire with a water can. The fire was confined to a closet area of the apartment. Glenham Engine 43-11 was special called over the first alarm to cover the city at Station 2.

On the early morning of March 17th, at around 5am, Engine 33-11 and Rescue 33-55 was dispatched to the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge Toll Plaza for a reported tractor trailer accident with possible fire, unconscious person, and large fuel spill. Upon arrival of the companies, they found a Tractor-Trailer that had crashed into a toll plaza booth at a high rate of speed with the driver unconscious and trapped in the tractor. In addition, the toll collector had received injuries from the impact and all the trucks fuel tanks had ruptured and spilled its fuel all around the incident. The companies extricated the victim from the tractor and assisted BVAC with packaging him. The victim was transported to St Francis via ALS in serious condition and later expired due to his injuries. The toll collector only received minor injuries  and RMAed. The incident was turned over to the DEC and Environmental Clean-Up to handle the fuel spill.