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Photo credit: Angela Gaul | West Haverstraw Fire Department volunteer firefighter Kenny Patterson of Garnverille talks about his experience being trapped in a fire on Westside Avenue in 2011 at the West Haverstaw Community Center. (Feb. 22, 2013)
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Kenny Patterson has, in the back of his mind, some all-too-vivid memories of the minutes he spent trapped inside a burning house with no oxygen in his tank and no way out.
On Jan. 14, 2011, the captain of the West Haverstraw Fire Department rushed into what was supposed to be a single-family home at 222 West Side Ave. in Haverstraw. A neighbor said someone was stuck on the third floor.
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