The radio scanner that blared from inside Kim Sheridan’s childhood home in Merrick was so constant, she said, she assumed everyone else had one in their house, too. It would alert her father, …
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By Alyssa Seidman
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3/9/21
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All 250 of Valley Stream’s firefighters will be eligible for cancer coverage when New York States Volunteer Firefighter Enhanced Cancer Disability Law goes into effect on Jan. 1.
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By Melissa Koenig
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12/6/18
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over the Nautical Mile, Freeport Fire Department Executive Director Ray Maguire said he was optimistic that the showers would hold off — and they did.
By 6 p.m. on Aug. 11, firefighters, …
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By Nadya Nataly
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8/17/18
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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. …
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By Nadya Nataly
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7/12/18
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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 …
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By Nadya Nataly
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5/3/18
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A Freeport volunteer firefighter was honored last week for his bravery, quick thinking and heroic efforts in his response to a house fire while off duty on the morning of March 26. The Freeport …
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By Julie Loney
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6/1/17
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For 90 years, volunteer firefighters have operated out of Oceanside’s South Side Hose Company No. 2 firehouse on Alice Avenue. But for the last four, they have been working out of a trailer in a …
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By Peter Belfiore
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2/28/17
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Things heated up quickly last Saturday at the Wantagh Fire Department’s headquarters on Park Avenue.
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By Rebecca Anderson
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10/20/15
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According to a recent New York Times article, the number of volunteer firefighters is decreasing while the reasons why increase. Besides the apparent reason that the work is dangerous, the allure has diminished because of the amount of fund-raising required; the rise in two-income families, which makes spare time harder to find; and the increase in the scope of the work to vehicular entrapments and water rescues to name a few.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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8/20/14
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I always thought it was cliché to say, “I’ve never seen anything like it,” but in the aftermath of Sandy, I can honestly say that, in my lifetime, I’ve never seen anything like it.
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11/15/12
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