A fire early Sunday morning tore through multiple bungalows at Tolaas Yaakov Bungalow Colony in Swan Lake the Catskills – across the street from Apple’s Bungalow Colony
Fire crews responding to the scene on Old White Lake Turnpike were overwhelmed by the flames and requested mutual aid from neighboring townships.
The blaze was eventually tamped down, but not before several bungalows were completely destroyed. Sources tell YWN that at least 10 bungalows were destroyed.
Thankfully, there were no injuries reported.
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And as is thematic with these bungalow fires over the last couple decades, the property was likely underinsured and the town anyways won’t issue permits to rebuild replacement bungalows unless they are bulls add proper homes.
This match against cheap summer homes has consistently been the drive behind the flight from the Catskills to anywhere else.
As one person who no longer summers in the Catskills told me “for that price, I can do better elsewhere”.
Did you see how they destroyed the entiere “Paradise” town. I still remember Newsom standing there under a rain of ashes, and stating it was all due to “climate change”. None of those disasters are anything natural.
Hope they made Borah Morah Hash first
steinj –
Actually, they corrected their spelling THEN made a bracha.
Borah Morah Hash… Goodness…
“Did you see how they destroyed the entiere “Paradise” town??”
Zeruth: Again with the meshugaas. THEY (whoever you mean that to be) didn’t destroy the town of Paradise CA. The town was destroyed when the Camp Fire burned through hundreds of thousands of acres of Northern California back in 2018. The fire likely started from a downed power line in a high wind situation. There was no “they”. Whether that specific wind storm was related to global warming is pure speculation but there clearly have been more frequent and intense storms and tinder dry conditions associated with increasing ambient temperatures.
its also that a dozen families have to make new plans and stay in the city for the summer OUCH!!