Yonkers officials probe alarm malfunction in wake of Crestwood blaze

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Yonkers officials are investigating a system malfunction at the city’s 911 dispatch center that delayed the response Wednesday to a fire that heavily damaged a home on Crestwood Avenue.

A meeting between police and the fire department is taking place this morning, after the fire union president lodged a formal complaint. “When the call came in, it was a very small fire,” union president Barry McGoey told The Journal News. “There would be about a 3-minute response to location if the fire was transmitted right away. The first two responding companies would have arrived to a very small fire. Instead, it appears there was at least a 10-minute delay because the system wasn’t working. By the time they got there, the whole structure was fully involved in fire.”

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