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South Nassau Communities Hospital is one of several local medical facilities prepared to handle the possibility of an influx of patients during the storm.

As the snow falls and the wind speeds pick up the pace, local hospitals will continue with their routine, along with preparation for the possibility that more patients than usual could be brought in from the storm. more

By Vanessa Parker | 1/27/15

Island Harvest and the American Red Cross have joined forces to provide services during the storm.

Island Harvest partners with American Red Cross

With a crippling winter storm hanging in the balance, Island Harvest Food Bank, Long Island’s largest hunger relief organization, is partnering with the American Red Cross to provide storm-related emergency food services to Long Island residents. more

By Vanessa Parker | 1/27/15

Natasha Koplik, 19, of Wantagh, a member of the Nassau County Police Explorers, played a victim during a disaster-preparedness contest organized by the Nassau County Community Emergency Response Team and the Office of Emergency Management at the Four Towns Fire Training Center in Merrick on Sept. 21.

CERT volunteers prep for the next Big One

Sept. 21 was the 76th anniversary of the infamous Long Island Express of 1938, a massive Category 3 hurricane that slammed into the Island, New Jersey and much of New England with rare ferocity, killing 800 people and causing $308 million in damage (the equivalent of $4.8 billion today), including the destruction of 57,000 homes. more

By Scott Brinton | 9/26/14

N. Merrick paramedic one of state’s best

Kevin O’Hara has been saving lives for four decades. A volunteer paramedic and firefighter with the North Merrick Fire Department, O’Hara is also a purveyor of life-saving knowledge to others — he has trained thousands of EMTs throughout his career, and thousands more Nassau County residents have learned cardiopulmonary resuscitation and ... more

8/13/14

Kevin O'Hara Jr., a North Merrick Fire Department member, teaches the Heimlich maneuver in 2011. The North Merrick Fire Department is the Nassau County Regional Emergency Medical Services Council’s 2014 “EMS Agency of the Year.”

N. Merrick F.D. earns ‘EMS Agency of the Year’

The North Merrick Fire Department topped 72 other local agencies this year to be selected as the Nassau County Regional Medical Advisory Council’s “EMS Agency of the Year.” more

8/13/14

Prepare for a storm before it strikes

That time of the year is here again — the heart of hurricane season — and it’s important to take steps now to make sure you and your family are safe when the next storm hits. more

8/13/14

Danny Ehrick, at lectern, offered praise for a New York state program that will allow homeowners living in Long Island’s 100-year flood plain to have the cost of elevating their homes fully reimbursed.

State offers funds to elevate homes

After Danny Ehrick’s home flooded in Hurricane Sandy, the 11-year resident of Freeport immediately cleaned his tools. Ehrick said he knew he would need them to gut the first floor of his canal-front home on Florence Avenue. more

By Julie Mansmann | 7/30/14

We'll say it again — fund the Bay Park pipe

The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently rejected the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s request to fund a $690 million outflow pipe that would stretch from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant three miles into the Atlantic Ocean. more

6/19/14

Nassau and Suffolk county officials gathered with leaders of the American Red Cross on Long Island last Friday in Bethpage to urge residents to prepare now for future severe storms. From left to right were Chris Kutner, co-chairman of the American Red Cross on Long Island’s Board of Directors; Joe Williams, commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services; John Miller, chief executive officer of the American Red Cross on Long Island; Steve Bellone, Suffolk County executive; Ed Mangano, Nassau County executive; Craig Craft, commissioner of the Nassau County Office of Emergency Management; Scott Tusa, chief fire marshal of Nassau County.

Counties urge hurricane preparedness

Summer is almost here, and with it many of the benefits of living by the shore. But June also marks the beginning of the year’s hurricane season on the East Coast, and with memories of Sandy … more

6/4/14

This month, thank a volunteer — and become one

No community would be what it is without volunteers. April is National Volunteer Month . . . more

4/10/14

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