A fast-moving fire ripped through a two-story home at 100 Beach Drive in south Merrick around 9:30 a.m. on June 25, according to fire officials.
Ron Luparello, the Merrick Fire Department …
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By Scott Brinton
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6/25/16
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The Merrick Fire Department and the Nassau County Hazardous Materials Response Division were called to the Merrick Post Office on Merrick Road after a light, odorless haze filled the office around 6:30 a.m. on Thursday.
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By Scott Brinton
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6/16/16
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Fire consumed a Millwood Lane home in North Merrick on Monday afternoon, causing heavy smoke to spread throughout the neighborhood.
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By Stephany Reyes
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6/6/16
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Twenty-five firefighters from four volunteer departments needed just 15 minutes to extinguish a fierce blaze that tore through a Marion Street home in Bellmore on Monday afternoon.
The call for a …
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By Scott Brinton
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5/19/16
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Laron McGravey, the driver who saved a dozen Merrick Avenue Middle School students from a fire that engulfed their school bus last month, was honored by the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education at its May 4 meeting.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/6/16
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The North Merrick Fire Department’s quick response saved a 38-year-old man who was asleep and trapped in a Maeder Avenue home on Thursday morning, according to James Rogers, the North Merrick fire chief.
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By Scott Brinton
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2/26/16
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Sun and warmer temperatures are making the Jan. 23 blizzard seem like a distant memory, but there’s still a month and a half to go until spring . . .
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2/4/16
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The heroin epidemic has ravaged Long Island’s South Shore for years now, and this most insidious of street drugs shows little sign of loosening its vise-like grip.
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By Scott Brinton
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12/30/15
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A Freeport motorcyclist was killed in a crash with a 2015 Lexus sedan driven by a 68-year-old man in Merrick on Sunday at 4:42 p.m., according to Nassau County police.
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By Scott Brinton
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12/14/15
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Santa Claus took two hours out of his hyper-busy schedule to swing by the gazebo at Merrick’s Long Island Rail Road station to meet with children and hear their fondest wishes last Sunday.
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By Scott Brinton
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12/9/15
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