07.25.2021 Editorials Editorial: Finding volunteer firefighters is an enormous challenge The news at fire departments from Greenport to Wading River is grim. There are just not enough volunteers to do the work that presents itself week after week. Take,...
07.22.2021 News North Fork is ‘hurting’ for volunteer firefighters Greenport Fire Department used to be massive. Thirty or 40 years ago, there was a waiting list to get in. But now, they’re hurting for volunteers. “When I joined,...
04.21.2018 Editorials Editorial: Over a two-day period, lives were saved On Saturday evening, with dusk soon to arrive, the wind rising and temperatures dropping, rescuers put their own lives on the line to save three men whose boat, a...
03.07.2017 Police Calverton homeowner thanks ‘wonderful’ volunteers who helped during fire Marlando Williams was just settling in upstairs at his home when he heard a loud bang from the garage Friday afternoon. At first, he and his wife, Sandra, were confused...
01.07.2016 Police 2015 People of the Year: Steve Beal, Kevin Burgess, Anthony Chiaramonte and J.R. Renten For hours upon hours every year, local volunteer firefighters train for worst-case scenarios. They prepare for smoke-filled houses and out of control fires. They drill again and again how...
12.10.2015 Police After 100 years, Riverhead Fire Department’s Eagles keep flying For the first few years after Eagle Hose Company No. 4 was founded in October 1915, its members fought fires by pulling a two-wheeled cart with a hand-powered pump...
10.12.2015 Police Local fire districts release details on budget increases Local fire districts have released proposed 2016 budgets, which are all set to be discussed at public hearings on Tuesday, Oct. 20.
04.14.2015 Police Pine Barrens Commission says it’s addressing firefighter concerns Firefighters in Flanders have been growing increasingly frustrated over the current condition of the woods there, which they say makes it difficult — and dangerous — to respond...
