ALBANY – Albany firefighters expected to be battling into the evening to extinguish a blaze that consumed a vacant commercial building near the intersection of North Slappey Boulevard and Eighth Avenue on Wednesday afternoon.
First responders closed North Slappey Boulevard for a brief period during the afternoon when the smoke was at its thickest at the site. The call for service came in at about 1:45 p.m., Albany Fire Department Capt. Marion Covin said…