The Town of Hempstead held a ceremony on July 3 to dedicate North Merrick's Gianelli Avenue in honor of fire patrolman Brian McCauley.
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Sari Zeidler
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7/8/10
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Fire ripped through a Cape Cod home at 2086 Monroe Ave. in North Bellmore at 5:21 a.m. on Tuesday, July 6, according to authorities.
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Scott Brinton
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7/7/10
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The Merrick Fire Department’s Empire Hose Company No. 3 responded to a yard fire that burned off a good section of the homeowner’s lawn on July 3 around 5:30 p.m., according to fire officials.
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Scott Brinton
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7/4/10
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Three-year-old Lucas McNally of Lynbrook was rushed to Winthrop University Hospital after he was found unresponsive at the bottom of the village pool in Greis Park on June 23.
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Clarissa Hamlin
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6/30/10
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Three girls were in the water, between National and Magnolia boulevards, a stone's throw from lifeguard headquarters, at about 11 a.m. last Friday when several lifeguards who were working on the …
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JOSEPH KELLARD
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6/10/10
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South Side High School spring concertgoers had to find alternate parking or make other transportation arrangements on the evening of June 3, when the Rockville Centre Fire Department scheduled a propane burn off drill at Fireman’s Field, adjacent to the school.
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Judy Rattner
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6/9/10
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Empire Hose Company No. 3 Inc. of the Merrick Fire Department will host the Nassau County Firemen’s Parade & Drill, along with a carnival from Newton Shows, in July.
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6/7/10
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The Bellmore Little League hosted its annual Memorial Day Weekend Girls Fastpitch Tournament at Newbridge Road Park, and coming out on top in its division was the U12 Blue Fire squad from Bellmore, which defeated the Diamond Dolls from Pelham Bay in the Bronx to take the championship. The Bellmore Little League thanked Dan Lino and Sammy Akiel from Newbridge Park for maintaining the fields throughout the weekend.
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6/4/10
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Competitions among Long Island’s fire departments go back as long as the volunteer companies have existed — 100 years of tradition. One of the most common forms of that competition is an Old Fashioned Drill where teams compete in eight firematic events involving the speed with which they can throw up a ladder, the speed they can climb that ladder, run down a course, stretch a hose line, trip a target with a hose stream, fill a barrel at the top of the arch, hoist buckets up a ladder and other related maneuvers that can and do occur at real fires.
One of the best at these competitions over the last 10 years has been Rockville Centre’s own Woodlanders of the Woodland Engine Company No. 4.
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5/26/10
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The second fire in less than three weeks in Baldwin's downtown — in a building on Grand Avenue, across from Baldwin Bowl, last Friday — appears "suspicious," according to Baldwin Fire …
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Mike Russo
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5/20/10
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