Fire ripped through the upstairs living quarters of the Poughkeepsie Fire Department’s Hooker Avenue firehouse on Tuesday, bringing multiple departments to the city to help fight the fire that was reported just after 7 p.m. The firehouse, with its iconic slate roof, has been a part of the South Side neighborhood since 1926. The station is home to Engine 3 and the department’s Rescue rig and is manned around the clock by a group of two firefighters and a lieutenant, who work 24-hour shifts. On Tuesday night, many of the firefighters were at City Hall, helping the police with National Night Out. Just before 7 p.m., the on-duty crews from all three stations were once again dispatched to the Luckey Platt apartment building at Academy and Cannon Streets for an unfounded automatic fire alarm, which is a common occurrence at that location.
