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Good-bye my friends I loved so dear; I am not dead but sleeping here.
I was not yours, but Christ’s alone; He loved me best, he took me home.
— IRONDEQUOIT — An Irondequoit woman and her granddaughter
were seriously burned in a house fire early Saturday, firefighters
and neighbors said.
Multiple calls reported heavy flames at a house next to 23 Osage St., a few blocks south of Sea Breeze Amusement Park, at 3:46 a.m., dispatchers said. Point Pleasant and Seabreeze district firefighters responded and had the blaze under control at 4:13 a.m.
A woman and a young girl were rescued from the home but suffered burns and “extreme respiratory distress,” said Point Pleasant spokesman Gary Clarcq. Neighbors identified them as Linda Foti, 57, and Serena Mayoliz, 3.
Foti suffered burns over about 80 percent of her body, Clarcq estimated. Neighbors said her life was in danger.
Serena suffered burns over about 40 percent of her body and was given mouth-to-mouth respiration, Clarcq said.
Both were listed in "guarded" condition at Strong Memorial Hospital.
Serena’s mother, whom neighbors identified as Erica Foti, was away for the evening. Linda Foti’s boyfriend, identified only as Richard, escaped. Neighbors said they had heard him pounding on the door and screaming for Foti and Serena to get out of the house.
The second floor above an enclosed front porch was heavily damaged, and scorch marks also were visible on second-floor rear windows. No damage estimate was available.
The house is half a block from one of the fire stations for Point Pleasant, but the all-volunteer force does not staff the station at night. Clarcq, a past chief, praised the quick response of the firefighters, who were awakened to fight the fire. “They did a marvelous job,” he said.
The district had conducted one of its regular drills in a smokehouse about nine hours earlier, he said.
Clarcq expected a stress debriefing team to talk to the firefighters later today.
Monroe County fire investigators were looking for the cause of the blaze.
St. Paul and Ridge Culver firefighters were standing by to assist if any other fires broke out while the Point Pleasant and Seabreeze firefighters were battling the Osage Street fire.
Multiple calls reported heavy flames at a house next to 23 Osage St., a few blocks south of Sea Breeze Amusement Park, at 3:46 a.m., dispatchers said. Point Pleasant and Seabreeze district firefighters responded and had the blaze under control at 4:13 a.m.
A woman and a young girl were rescued from the home but suffered burns and “extreme respiratory distress,” said Point Pleasant spokesman Gary Clarcq. Neighbors identified them as Linda Foti, 57, and Serena Mayoliz, 3.
Foti suffered burns over about 80 percent of her body, Clarcq estimated. Neighbors said her life was in danger.
Serena suffered burns over about 40 percent of her body and was given mouth-to-mouth respiration, Clarcq said.
Both were listed in "guarded" condition at Strong Memorial Hospital.
Serena’s mother, whom neighbors identified as Erica Foti, was away for the evening. Linda Foti’s boyfriend, identified only as Richard, escaped. Neighbors said they had heard him pounding on the door and screaming for Foti and Serena to get out of the house.
The second floor above an enclosed front porch was heavily damaged, and scorch marks also were visible on second-floor rear windows. No damage estimate was available.
The house is half a block from one of the fire stations for Point Pleasant, but the all-volunteer force does not staff the station at night. Clarcq, a past chief, praised the quick response of the firefighters, who were awakened to fight the fire. “They did a marvelous job,” he said.
The district had conducted one of its regular drills in a smokehouse about nine hours earlier, he said.
Clarcq expected a stress debriefing team to talk to the firefighters later today.
Monroe County fire investigators were looking for the cause of the blaze.
St. Paul and Ridge Culver firefighters were standing by to assist if any other fires broke out while the Point Pleasant and Seabreeze firefighters were battling the Osage Street fire.
