Four firefighters from the Elmont Fire Department suffered injuries, one seriously hurt, while participating in training exercises at North Woodmere County Park around 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 30. The injuries were to their heads, chests and faces.
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By Jackie Nash
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9/9/11
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The eastbound side of the Sunrise Highway was shut down sometime between 9:15 and 9:45 a.m. on Wednesday when Merrick Fire Department volunteers responded to a car fire that consumed a black Audi.
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By Scott Brinton and David Weingrad
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9/7/11
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Some streets flooded and some trees were downed. But for many in Oceanside, Irene was not the catastrophic storm she was made out to be.
“The nor’easter last March was worse than this …
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Alex Costello
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8/31/11
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As Hurricane Irene bears down on Long Island, many in Oceanside and Island Park are preparing to evacuate. Yet many others are securing their homes and preparing to ride out the storm.
Nassau …
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Alex Costello
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8/27/11
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An anxious but able group of Fire Department operatives are on hand in Baldwin this afternoon waiting to help those in need.
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Chris Connolly
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8/27/11
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A massive storm dumped nearly 10 inches of rain on the Merrick-Bellmore area from Saturday night into Sunday afternoon, flooding the Meadowbrook Parkway and homes throughout the community. At the storm’s height, rain was falling at a rate of more than an inch an hour.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/14/11
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I’m a history buff. I love the kernels of knowledge that one can find from reading history textbooks.
But what I love even more than history is researching history, whether actively or …
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Alex Costello
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8/3/11
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Dressed in a black blouse and blue jeans, Carol Gies stood silently on Tuesday morning, her chin in her hands, her elbows resting on a crane that was lifting a twisted World Trade Center girder into the parking lot at the Merrick Fire Department’s Friendship Engine and Hose Company.
Gies, who lost her husband, Ronnie, in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, looked forlorn.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/26/11
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The Island Park Kiwanis Club is reaching out to the community to help the organization raise money to refurbish the pediatric resuscitation kits it supplied to the Island Park Fire Department a few …
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Alex Costello
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7/20/11
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The Island Park Fire Department held its annual Children’s Fire Tournament at Masone Beach on July 15.
After practicing for two days, kids came out and competed in fire fighting events, like …
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7/20/11
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