Lynbrook firefighters search for possible LIRR victim

On Labor Day, at about 6:10 p.m., the Lynbrook Fire Department, under the command of Chief Raymond Burke, responded to the area along the Long Island Rail Road tracks on Sunrise Highway between Ocean Avenue and Rocklyn Avenue after a train conductor operating a westbound train reported that he may have possibly struck a person near the track embankment around Ocean Avenue in Lynbrook. 

The train immediately stopped just before the Rocklyn Avenue overpass and the Lynbrook Fire Department’s Emergency Medical Company, and the Rescue, Hook, Ladder and Bucket Company, with their bucket truck, responded. The bucket was used to lift firefighters up to the train and the overgrown track embankment. Besides the fire department, the Lynbrook police, Rockville Centre police, and the MTA police, all joined forces to search the area for the possible victim. 

During a search that lasted over an hour, the power was turned off as firefighters searched around and under the train and in the heavy vegetation along the tracks.  After a complete search of the tracks and the embankment area no person was found. The power was turned back on and the train continued its trip. The Lynbrook Police Department confirmed that, after their search, no victim was found.