Crime & Safety

Warm Temperatures Lead to Oily Runoff into Sparkle Lake

Yorktown Heights Fire Department firefighters were dispatched to Sparkle Lake on Jan. 7 at about 1:40 p.m. on a report of a large oil spill. 

"Yorktown firefighters quickly mitigated the spill by locating the source and containing the oil entering into the lake via storm drains," firefighters wrote on their website

Read the full account above and see more photos of the oil spill in Yorktown. 

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