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On July 30, members of the East Rockaway Junior Fire Department graduated from Camp Fahrenheit 516, a weeklong training event where they gained hands-on experience in how to fight fires and learned safety protocol at Nassau County Fire Services Academy in Old Bethpage.
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By Mike Smollins
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8/10/17
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A garage sale fundraiser was held at the Main Street Firehouse in East Rockaway on April 15 and netted over $5,000 for the Keith Lane Visual Arts & Media Scholarship. The scholarship will be awarded to an East Rockaway Junior-Senior High School student who is pursuing a college degree in media.
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By Mike Smollins
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4/27/17
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Tom Merkel Jr. comes from a long line of volunteer firefighters, stretching back to the early 1900s in Valley Stream. His grandfather was a lieutenant at the Garden City Fire Department. His father was a member of the East Rockaway Fire Department and a firefighter in New York City. Now Merkel and his son are continuing this tradition.
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By Melissa Koenig
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4/27/17
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The East Rockaway Fire Department will host a RecruitNY Open House this Sunday from 10 a.m. to noon at four of its firehouses and its headquarters.
The event will be held at the Liberty Hose Co. …
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4/26/17
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When Stacy Lane-Navarra reflects on who her brother Keith Lane was, she thinks of his passion for photojournalism and the thrill he experienced from chasing a story. That drive began when he was a student at East Rockaway Junior-Senior High School and culminated in a job as a Fox 5 New York cameraman.
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By Mike Smollins
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3/30/17
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East Rockaway resident Joe Murphy, 55, wants nothing more than for spring to arrive so he can go to a Mets game with his wife, Jackie, and their sons Ryan, 20, and Colin, 17, to watch his beloved team play. But Murphy has a long way to go before he can attend another season-opener as he waits at home for a new heart and kidney.
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By Mary Malloy
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1/11/17
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The East Rockaway Fire Department will host its annual Fire Prevention Day Program on Sunday Oct. 16, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Grant Avenue Firehouse next to St. Raymond’s School, off of …
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10/12/16
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By Mary Malloy
mmalloy@liherald.com
The East Rockaway Fire Department is one of two departments in Nassau County that have received federal funding from the Department of Homeland Security’s …
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By Mary Malloy
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9/7/16
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East Rockaway firefighters extinguished a blaze and rescued a 54-year-old man from his second-floor Ocean Avenue apartment on April 12.
Nassau County Police Department arson/bomb detectives said …
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By Mary Malloy
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4/21/16
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The Strife family was just sitting down to a nice Valentine’s Day meal on Sunday in their Scranton Avenue home in Lynbrook when they heard a frantic pounding on their front door.
“We had no …
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By Mary Malloy
(Steve Grogan and Brian Grogan contributed to this story)
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2/15/16
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