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.
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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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A school bus bound for Merrick Avenue Middle School caught fire and burst into flames on Kirkwood Avenue in Merrick shortly before 8 a.m. on April 6.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/6/16
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On Saturday, April 9, as part of fire safety initiative, more than a dozen Red Cross volunteer teams will canvass homes in the Town of Hempstead to install free smoke alarms in homes that do not have working devices.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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3/30/16
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March is the month we recognize the American Red Cross for all it does, as we have since President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed it so in 1943: “I request that during that month . . .
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3/3/16
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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 dried-out, eight-foot Christmas tree can light, blaze and burn to ash in less than a minute, causing considerable damage in the process, according to research by the National Institute of …
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By Barbra Rubin-Perry
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12/23/15
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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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