A house fire Friday night on Locust Park near Sand Creek Road in Colonie left two people dead, one adult and one young child, and sent an injured firefighter to the hospital. The cause of the blaze remains under investigation.
News10 reported that crews responded to the fire at a home on Locust Park at about 5:25 p.m. Friday. According to WNYT, sources told the station that the house fire killed two people, and reporter Mark Mulholland learned Friday night that the deceased included one adult and one young child.
Firefighters managed to pull occupants from the burning home before the deaths were confirmed. News10's report at the time said crews were able to make entry and rescue the two victims, whose conditions were not known in that initial account. A third occupant was able to escape the home without injury, the station reported, and one pet was reported to have died in the fire.
Firefighters Hurt Battling The Blaze
At least one firefighter was hurt responding to the fire. Sources told NewsChannel 13 that a firefighter was injured and taken to the hospital. The station's earlier report, citing Fuller Road Fire Department Chief Michael Romano, said two firefighters were injured, with one transported to the hospital and expected to be OK. The discrepancy between the two counts has not been resolved in available reporting.
The cause of Friday's fire is under investigation, and officials have not released the identities of those killed or confirmed their ages beyond describing one victim as an adult and the other as a young child.
A Second Deadly Fire On The Same Street
Friday's tragedy marks the second fatal fire on Locust Park in less than two years. A fire at 4 Locust Park in January 2025 killed three people, according to a report from the Times Union. Police identified those victims as 72-year-old Lynne J. Lyons, her daughter, 33-year-old Katelyn A. Ryan, and Ryan's husband, 42-year-old Timothy M. Ryan, while two other people suffered non-life-threatening injuries in that blaze.
Investigators later determined that the 2025 fire was sparked by improperly discarded smoking materials on the front porch, according to a report from Spectrum News 1. Authorities said combustible and flammable materials on the porch helped that fire spread quickly, while a lack of working smoke detectors and hoarding conditions hindered the occupants' ability to escape. That finding applies only to last year's fire and does not establish what caused Friday's blaze, which investigators are still working to determine.
