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Octogenarian Crew from Eaton’s Neck FD Attacks Car Fire on Long Island Expressway

September 25, 2017 10:18 pm Comments Off

At approximately 8:00 am on September 20, 2017, Eaton’s Neck Fire Department’s Engine 7 was traveling east on the Long Island Expressway between exits 60 and 61 in Ronkonkoma. The apparatus was en route to the Suffolk County Fire Academy in Yaphank for routine pump testing.

With traffic backing up, a car fire was observed on […]

Firefighters Run the Cow Harbor Race

September 22, 2017 11:52 am Comments Off

Local volunteer firefighters representing the fire service, successfully completed the Cow Harbor Race in Northport on Saturday, September 16, 2017. The five firefighters ran the entire 6.21 mile race wearing about 50 pounds of structural firefighting gear and self-contained breathing apparatus.

Pictured from left at the Finish Line, are Firefighter/EMT Mike Gunther of Centerport FD, Firefighter/EMT […]

Country Music Concert Comes to Centerport Help Support Your Fire Department

September 21, 2017 5:57 pm Comments Off

The Centerport Fire Department is proud to present their second annual Country Concert and Barbecue Cook-Off on Saturday, September 23, 2017, from 1pm – 7pm at Centerport Beach. The concert features live Country Music by the award winning Nashville recording artists “Joe Bayer Band,” one of the nation’s top rated Country Music Bands. Joe Bayer received the “Entertainer […]

Major Blaze In Huntington Station Today Displaces 15 People

September 20, 2017 7:12 pm Comments Off

Members of the Huntington Manor Fire Department responded to a structure fire on New York Avenue between West 10th and 11th Street in Huntington Station on Wednesday, September 20, 2017, at 6:51 a.m. Huntington Manor firefighters arrived to a working fire in residential apartments behind a commercial building, and began an aggressive attack on the blaze.
Mutual […]

Huntington Manor FD Battles Auto Shop Blaze

September 17, 2017 11:23 am Comments Off

The Huntington Manor Fire Department responded to a blaze at Auto Fusion auto repair shop on West Jericho Turnpike in Huntington Station on Thursday morning, September 14, 2017 at around 8:30 a.m. About 60 firefighters from Huntington Manor, Huntington, Melville, Greenlawn, Syosset and Dix Hills fire departments were on the scene with ten trucks and had the fire […]

Dix Hills Firefighters Save Woman from Jamesport Fire

September 15, 2017 12:36 pm Comments Off

Firefighters from the Dix Hills Fire Department out on the east end helped save a woman from a raging house fire in Jamesport on Saturday afternoon, September 9, 2017 at about 2:45 p.m. Dix Hills FD Captain Scott DiPino and Firefighters Mike Gatto and Matt Mattone were touring the North Fork with other firefighters and stopped for lunch […]

Huntington To Rename Park for Fallen Firefighter

September 6, 2017 9:14 pm Comments Off

Eight years to the day he died, a ceremony will be held to rename Depot Road Park after Richard Wm. Holst, honorary chief and longtime chaplain of the Huntington Manor Fire Department.
On Sept. 9, 2009, Richard Holst, 60, saw smoke coming from a bagel shop in a shopping center near where he lived. Mr. Holst […]

East Northport Fire Department 9/11 Memorial Service

September 3, 2017 1:56 pm Comments Off

The East Northport Fire Department will be hosting their annual 9/11 Memorial Service on Monday, September 11, 2017, at Fire Headquarters located at Larkfield Road and Ninth Avenue. The East Northport Fire Department has vowed to “Never Forget” that tragic day, and invites the community and neighboring fire departments to join with them to remember those innocent […]

Melville Fire Department Hosts 9/11 Remembrance

September 3, 2017 1:53 pm Comments Off

The Melville Fire Department invites the community to join us for our 9/11 Memorial Service on September 11, 2017 at 8 p.m. at Station # 3, on Old Country Road and New York Avenue. The candlelight remembrance takes place around a steel beam recovered from the World Trade Center that stands on a memorial plaza at the […]

Melville Fire Department Assists at East Farmingdale Acid Spill

August 31, 2017 6:19 pm Comments Off

The Melville Fire Department was requested to assist the East Farmingdale Fire Department with a Hazardous Materials incident on Smith Street, Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 6:35 p.m. East Farmingdale firefighters were out battling a working house fire on Walnut Avenue East during the incident. Melville firefighters arrived to find that a vehicle had run over a five-gallon […]