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Fire breaks out at abandoned garage in Riverhead

By Vera Chinese

BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO
A fire broke out early Saturday morning and burned a garage to the ground at
an abandoned Northville Turnpike home.

A fire burned a garage to the ground at an abandoned home in Riverhead early Saturday morning, police said. No injuries
were reported.
Riverhead Fire Department volunteers arrived at the Northville Turnpike home at about 3:45 a.m. and put out the flames.
The cause of the blaze is under investigation, police said. The Suffolk County Police Arson Squad also responded to the scene.
Police are asking anyone with additional information to call 727-4500.

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Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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