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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Clintondale Fire claims one life
Twitter
threat
Police take Highland
student into custody
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Just after noon on March 27 a fire broke out at 370 Crescent Avenue in Clintondale, claiming the life of 49 year-old wife and mother,
Theresa Korzeniecki.
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
At 12:04 p.m. on Wednesday, March
27 the Clintondale Fire Department
responded to a call of a house fire at
370 Crescent Avenue in Clintondale.
Upon arriving at the scene and
finding an active fire, Chief Rick Brooks
put out a second alarm that brought to
the scene the Modena, Milton, New
Paltz, Plattekill and Highland Fire
Departments, involving 60 firefighters
in the effort. Also at the fire were
members of the NYS Police, the Ulster
County Sheriff’s Office, the Plattekill
Police Department, the Plattekill
Building Inspector, Mobile Life
Theresa Korzeniecki
Support Services and representatives
from Central Hudson.
After the fire was knocked down,
homeowner Theresa Korzeniecki was
found in a second floor bedroom and
was pronounced dead at the scene. In
addition, two family dogs, Cheyenne
and Jaxson, also perished in the fire.
The cause of death is still under
investigation and the fire may have
been due to electrical factors.
Theresa Korzeniecki, 49, graduated
from Highland High School and was
a life-long resident of the community.
She is survived by her husband Brian
and two children Brian Jr. and Marissa
along with nine siblings, several
in-laws and many nephews and nieces.
On
Thursday,
March
28
at
approximately 11 a.m., Law Enforcement
from the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office
and the Town of Lloyd Police Department
descended upon the Highland High
School and took into custody a 15 year
old juvenile for allegedly making a threat
on Twitter, referencing the Norwegian
terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, who
killed 77 people in his country in 2011.
The Federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco
and Firearms [ATF], in Washington D.
C., was the original agency that notified
local law enforcement of the threat. The
juvenile was quickly apprehended and
with the parent’s cooperation, a search
was made of two separate homes in the
Towns of Plattekill and Esopus where the
juvenile resides.
The Lloyd Police department released
a statement that said, in part, “Although
the juvenile suspect was located at
Highland High School, no threats were
made in regards to Highland High
School or any other specific location.
The investigation revealed that the
threat posed no immediate danger and
the searches conducted by Police did
not produce any weapons or items of
concern.” The NYS Police brought K-9
bomb sniffing dogs to do a sweep of the
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