Two fires were reported in town last week, one in East Hampton and one in Springs.
On the afternoon of St. Patrick’s Day, the property manager of the East Hampton House resort on Pantigo Road, Richard Kealy, 73, had already doused a small blaze there by the time police arrived. The fire started, according to the report, in the heating and air conditioning unit in one of the rooms.
Mr. Kealy told police that the room had been rented the night before, and that when the cleaning crew came to turn it over for the next use that morning they discovered flames. The crew
immediately alerted Mr. Kealy, who grabbed a fire extinguisher and was able to put the fire out himself. The town fire marshal did not find anything suspicious about its origin.
In Springs last Thursday morning, Agron Binozi of that hamlet, 70, was driving on Manor Lane when he noticed smoke coming from the engine of his Ford and called police. The car was still smoking when officers got there, but Mr. Binozi, like Mr. Kealy, was able to deal with it himself. The Springs Fire Department and the town fire marshal both responded to the call.
