More than 100 residents of a Rockland nursing and rehabilitation facility will be evacuated after a three-alarm fire broke out in the building Saturday afternoon, Rockland Fire Chief Scott Duffey said.

Duffey said all 102 residents of the Webster Park Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center at 56 Webster St. in Rockland will need to be evacuated.

The fire was reported at approximately 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 29, he said. When crews arrived on scene they found fire on the third floor of the building that was "being held in check by" the automatic sprinkler system and the crews "very quickly were able to get water on the fire and finish putting it out" but there was "very heavy smoke," Duffey said at a press conference on scene Saturday afternoon.

He said all patients from the third floor wer

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