Colonie gives away, installs new smoke detectors for residents

Colonie gives away, installs new smoke detectors for residents

Sounding the alarm after a series of fires in the town COLONIE— In January, a blaze at a Locust Park home claimed the lives of three family members and left two with non-life-threatening injuries after a narrow escape. Two months later, two more Colonie residents died when their home on Tanglewood Drive near Cook Park caught fire overnight and spread. According to investigators, neither home had working smoke detectors. In response, Town of Colo…