After tragedy strikes, Angela Skudin creates the Casey Skudin 343 Fund, supporting first responders' mental health with holistic treatments
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By Angelina Zingariello
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3/29/24
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They’re good people. They’re strong. And they’re heroes.
That’s how people in New York describe volunteer firefighters, according to a survey conducted by the …
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3/29/24
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A decade ago, there was a fire at Chabad of the Beaches at Beth El. A group of firefighters banded together to save two Torah scrolls from the devastation.
They were honored with a service on …
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By Angelina Zingariello
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3/15/24
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Long Beach’s highest-paid employee in 2022 wasn’t the city manager or the city attorney, but rather a professional firefighter, Sam Pinto, who earned about $375,000, including his base …
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By James Bernstein
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3/2/23
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The Nassau Interim Finance Authority decided to exempt the Nassau University Medical Center and NuHealth, the public-benefit corporation that runs the East Meadow hospital, from oversight in 2011, at a time when the facility was seemingly thriving.
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2/21/20
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Long Beach firefighters rushed to the aid of a man who suffered from a severe gash on his wrist from a construction side incident on Dec. 1 at around 11 a.m., according to the department’s Facebook …
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12/6/18
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By Bridget Downes
bdownes@liherald.com
It was a busy weekend for first responders after the annual Saint Brendan the Navigator Irish Heritage Day Parade and Festival on Saturday.
Long …
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By Bridget Downes
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10/11/18
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“He was my best friend, and he was lots of people’s best friend. He just kind of had that way about him. He touched a lot of people’s lives, and he’s going to be missed by many, many …
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By Bridget Downes
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9/27/18
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Rescue crews suspended recovery efforts Wednesday afternoon after a massive search for a missing 10-year-old boy who went swimming at Edwards Boulevard beach on Tuesday, Fire Commissioner Scott …
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By Anthony Rifilato and Bridget Downes
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6/20/18
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Long Beach firefighters extricated a woman in an overturned car at around 1:30 p.m. on Friday after two cars collided at the intersection of Long Beach Boulevard and East Hudson Street.
“We …
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5/11/18
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