Fire Devastates Fellowship Community Building

CHESTNUT RIDGE, NY — A fire severely damaged a main building at the Rudolf Steiner Fellowship Community in Rockland County on Sunday afternoon. Ramapo police said detectives and members of the county's arson unit are investigating.

Hungry Hollow Road was closed from Chestnut Ridge Road to Margetts Road for several hours.

Police reported one minor injury, a person treated for smoke inhalation by Faist Ambulance Corp and the Rockland Paramedic Services.

Among the fire departments assisting were Monsey, Nanuet, New City, Nyack, Orangeburg, Spring Valley, South Spring Valley, Suffern, Tallman and Upper Saddle River in New Jersey.

The Fellowship Community, founded in 1966, is an inter-generational community that supports its elderly members from independent living to direct care. The community has a 80-acre campus and includes a nursing home and community kitchen, doctors' offices, a community garden. The Green Meadow Waldorf School is next door.