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Firefighters battle massive blaze at EAS Ambulance Company in Freeport with 26 other departments, causing substantial damage and injuring three responders

Blaze destroys Freeport's Emergency Ambulance Service facility

More than two dozen fire departments responded to a fire Saturday morning that left a key ambulance facility in ruins. Flames had already engulfed the Emergency Ambulance Service building at 30 Commercial St., by the time first responders arrived just after 11 a.m. The Freeport Fire Department joined 26 other departments and 150 personnel on the efforts to extinguish the flames. more

By Mohamed Farghaly | 4/1/23

Fire Department Executive Director Ray Maguire, sixth from left of men in uniform, presented a plaque on behalf of Mayor Robert Kennedy to the city of Walldorf, Germany.

A tale of two fire departments

Freeport Fire Department Chief Executive Ray Maguire and a delegation of Freeport firefighters made a special trip to Walldorf, Germany, in mid-October. more

By Reine Bethany | 12/16/21

Former Freeport Fire Chief Thomas Johnson

Nick LaBorne and Thomas Johnson are this week's Hometown Heroes

The Hometown Heroes series, which will shortly end, has examined the sustained heroism of citizens in all walks of life during the coronavirus pandemic. Each hero tells his or her own story. This week's heroes are Thomas Johnson, who was the Freeport Fire Chief when the pandemic first hit early in 2020, and Nick LaBorne, EMS director in Freeport. more

By Reine Bethany | 10/16/21

Freeport Fire Department presented Bayview Avenue School’s third-graders who scored 100 percent on the Junior Fire Marshal Quiz with certificates.

Bayview Avenue School students slide into 13th year of fire safety

Bayview Avenue School third graders participated in the 13th annual “Hooked on Firefighters” program featuring the Freeport Fire Department at the Nassau County Firefighters Museum and Education Center in Garden City on May 30th. more

By Natalie Deshommes | 6/7/19

Freeport Mayor Robert Kennedy cracked a bottle of champagne on the front bumper of the Bayview Hose Company 3’s new fire truck on Nov. 17.

Freeport Fire Department christens its newest truck

Freeport Mayor Robert Kennedy counted to 3 and swung the champagne bottle into the Freeport Fire Department’s newest fire truck, housed at Bayview Hose Company No. 3, smashing it against the front bumper. The truck, said Capt. Corey Cook, was “a long time coming.” more

By Nadya Nataly | 11/26/18

Freeport firefighter Joseph Primavera with his son Joey in the late 1980s. Primavera is celebrating five decades with the Fire Department.

Freeporter still active after five decades of firefighting

The past 50 years have been some of the best of Joseph Primavera’s life, which he attributes in no smhonorary chiefall measure to the Freeport Fire Department’s The Wide Awake Engine Company No. … more

By Nadya Nataly | 7/12/18

Members of the Nassau County Police Department performed the flag-folding ceremony.

Village honors soldiers who gave all

Josefina Del Cid wiped her tears away with a handkerchief as two Freeport High School band members played taps at the end of the Freeport Memorial Day Parade on Monday. It was Del Cid’s first … more

By Nadya Nataly | 6/1/18

Freeport firefighters Anthony Basile, left, and Edward Martin joined Hose Co. No. 2 in 1968.

Two firefighters honored for 50 years of service

They’re not the ones running into burning buildings anymore. Those days are over. They are, however, the ones sounding the siren and driving volunteer firefighters to those burning buildings and … more

By Nadya Nataly | 5/3/18

Keith Young, 53, an FDNY retiree and a former Freeport Fire Department volunteer, died on March 17 of a Sept. 11-related illness.

Firefighter Keith Young, 53, dies of 9/11-related illness

He was known as the “firehouse chef,” after he appeared on celebrity chef Bobby Flay’s television show “Throwdown.” When he wasn’t in the kitchen, Freeport High School alumnus Keith … more

By Nadya Nataly | 4/5/18

Freeport’s Dead End Kids took first place in the Running Ladder competition, during last Friday’s New York State Old Fashioned Championship tournament hosted in Baldwin.

Freeport F.D. smokes the competition

The Freeport Dead End Kids drill team came out on top at the New York State Old-Fashioned Championship firefighting tournament in Baldwin last Friday. It was the second straight year that Freeport … more

By Daine Taylor and Nadya Nataly | 8/14/17

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