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Rachael Ray shares video, story of her Lake Luzerne house fire

September 14, 2020
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A man riding by her house on an ATV alerted her to the flames

1of3TV personality Rachael Ray (AP Photo/Ziploc, Gary He) ORG XMIT: MER2015012520233724GARY HE
2of3From left, William McGovern, chief of investigations unit at NYS Office of Fire Prevention and Control, Brian LaFlure, Warren County fire coordinator, and Ted Backus, Luzerne-Hadley fire chief, speak to the press about the fire that happened at Rachael Ray’s home late Sunday night on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020 in Lake Luzerne, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union
3of3Brian LaFlure, Warren County fire coordinator, explains that the fire that occurred at Rachael Ray’s home late Sunday night was contained mainly to the second level of the home Monday, Aug. 10, 2020 in Lake Luzerne, N.Y. William McGovern, chief of investigations unit at NYS Office of Fire Prevention and Control, left, and Ted Backus, Luzerne-Hadley fire chief, right also spoke during the press conference. The celebrity chef’s kitchen was not damaged. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union

In the season premiere of her syndicated show Monday, Rachael Ray had a segment about the fire that partially destroyed her home in Lake Luzerne, Warren County in August.

In the clip, Ray talks about how she started a fire in her fireplace, and a while later a man jumped off an ATV in her backyard and yelled that her roof was on fire.

The famous chef and talk show host recounted how she tried to run upstairs and get her notebooks and her mother’s class ring, but heard fire crackling in the walls. She said a Hadley-Luzerne firefighter had entered the house and yelled at her to get out

She then had Greg Amyot, New York fire investigator, take her – and viewers – through what is left of the home. Amyot also discussed the challenge of there being no fire hydrants in her remote location, and how firefighters that night had to transport water from a half-mile away. The home, while heavily damaged on the second floor, appears to be able to be reconstructed.

Lauren Stanforth works for the Times Union’s investigations team. Her reporting career began at the Ithaca Journal in 1996, and moved on to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in 1998, where she worked until coming to the Times Union in 2007. You can reach her at lstanforth@timesunion.com.

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