Suburban Fire Marshal

1104 hours. Commack Ambulance and Commack Fire Department were activated for an overturn at the intersection of Jericho Turnpike and Veterans Memorial Highway. Units arrived to find that a crane had overturned. The operator was evaluated but found to be uninjured.  SCPD took over the scene re-routing traffic while the machine was returned to the upright position and removed. 

Setauket Fire Department responded to a working fire in a home on Ivy Lane. With the help of mutual aid from Stony Brook, Port Jefferson, Terryville, Centereach, Selden and Port Jefferson Ambulance, the fire was brought under control within a hour.

1034 hours. Smithtown Fire Department is dispatched to a report of a gas leak on Mt. Pleasant Road near Townline Road. Firefighters arrive to find gas leaking from a manhole in the street. FD personnel closed Mt. Pleasant from Townline to Sherry Lane and continuously monitored atmospheric conditions in the area until National Grid arrived to handle. Engines 1, 4 and 5 along with ladder 7 and heavy rescue 9 operated.

1620 hours. ,Commack Fire Department, Commack Ambulance and the Dix Hills Fire Department are all dispatched to a traffic collision with injuries at the intersection of Daly Road and Jericho Turnpike.  Units arrived to find a crash involving multiple vehicles, one of which left the roadway and struck a utility pole. Personnel from the Commack and Dix Hills Fire Departments removed the two passenger side doors and the drivers side back door to allow Commack Ambulance personnel to enter the vehicle, stabilize the lone occupant and remove them from the vehicle.  CVAC personnel evaluated the occupants of the other vehicles as well and thankfully only one party was injured. That subject was transported by CVAC ambulance to Southside Hospital.  

3680 Commack Ambulance

6952 Central Islip-Hauppauge Ambulance

1431 Commack Fire Department

1014 Hauppauge Fire Department

1908 Kings Park Fire Department

3743 Smithtown Fire Department

1337 St. James Fire Department

2385 Nesconset Fire Department  

194 Nissequogue FIre Department

3480 Centereach Fire Department

4219 Ronkonkoma FIre Department

3574 Setauket Fire Department                                

Total alarms combined:  33,917

That works out to 93 calls every day and 4 calls every hour of every day. All answered by volunteers!

Thank you all for your service!

2344. The Ronkonkoma Fire Deoartment closed out 2019 with a report of a house fire at 125 Park Avenue. Units arrived and quickly extinguished an electrical fire in the wall of a bedroom.

0055 hours. The Hauppauge Fire Department responds with Central Islip Hauppauge Ambulance to a traffic collision on the LIE. Units arrive to find an overturned passenger vehicle on the eastbound side between exits 55-56 that may have been involved in a crash with another vehicle that fled the area. The three occupants had self extricated. One victim sustained a serious head injury. All were transported. Suffolk Police closed the eastbound LIE from 55 to 56 until just prior to 0330 hours for their investigation and to clear the vehicle from the roadway.

0907 hours. Lakeland Fire Department is called to respond to a report of a house on fire at 2282 Pond Road. Units arrive to find fire rolling out of a single car garage attached to a single story private dwelling. Mutual aid was requested from Ronkonkoma for an engine, Holbrook for a truck and Nesconset FD for a RIT. Crews stretched lines into the garage and the house and extinguished the fire, which had extended into the attic and the back of the house. There were no injuries. Fire Marshals from the Town of Islip are investigating. 

1021 hours. The Smithtown Fire Department responds to 10 Rogers Lane in regard to a structure fire. While en-route, units were advised that workers had been sweating pipes and set fire to combustibles within a bathroom wall. FD personnel arrived, stretched a hose line in through the front door, opened up the wall in the work area and extinguished the fire. Crews checked the remainder of the living area and the attic for extension and ventilated the house. Assistant Chief Diecidue operated with three engines, a truck and their rescue.

1200 hours. The Kings Park Fire Department is dispatched to 434 Meadow Road in regard to a phone alarm reporting smoke in the house. Units arrived shortly thereafter and after a quick size up and search, found active fire in the walls around a fireplace chimney in a two story dwelling. The working fire was transmitted, bringing in units from Smithtown, Commack, St. James and East Northport FD's. Firefighters opened the walls, extinguished the fire and overhauled the area. Fire Marshals from the Town of Smithtown Department of Public Safety are investigating. Commack Ambulance sent a rig to cover for the duration of the incident. 

1428 While returning from a report of a gas leak on Brooksite Drive, Smithtown Fire Department was dispatched to a brush fire at 93 Oak Lane in the Village of the Branch. Units arrived quickly and found two sheds, brush and a fence burning in the rear yard. Crews stretched a line off of engine 5 and the fire was extinguished within 10 minutes. Unfortunately the contents of the sheds were destroyed. There were no injuries and there was no damage to any other structures. Fire Marshals from the Town of Smithtown Department of Public Safety are investigating.  This incident was one of fifteen calls that the Smithtown Fire Department handled on Christmas Eve. 

0612 hours. The Hauppauge Fire Department is dispatched along with Central Islip Hauppauge Ambulance to a motor vehicle crash on Raul Wallenburg Drive, south of Veterans Highway. Units arrive to find Suffolk County Police ESU cutting two subjects out of an SUV that had left the roadway and overturned, rolling down an embankment. ESU officers removed the roof of the vehicle and the two occupants exited under their own power. Ambulance personnel evaluated both subjects who denied injury and refused transport. Fire and EMS Personnel took up, leaving the scene to the police department. 

1104 hours. The Commack Fire Department received a phone alarm reporting a fire in an office at 1030 Jericho Turnpike. Units arrive to find the remains of a self extinguished fire. With no fire department services required, units took up, turning the scene over to Fire Marshals from the Town of Smithtown Department of Public Safety.

2306 hours. The Kings Park Fire Department responds to a report of a house fire at 38 Thompson Street off Old Dock Road. Crews arrive to find an active fire in a ground level bedroom of a two story multiple dwelling. Kings Park members made entry and had water on the fire within minutes of arriving.

The East Northport Fire Department sent a RIT, Commack Fire Department sent an engine, the Smithtown Fire Department sent an engine and the Northport Fire Department sent an engine. All visible fire was knocked down at 2351 and the fire was placed under control at 0025 hours. The St. James Fire Department sent an engine and an ambulance to cover Kings Park for the duration of the alarm. Crews cleared from the scene just before 1AM.

 Fire Marshals from the Town of Smithtown Department of Public Safety are investigating the cause, which is not considered suspicious at this time.

0342 hours.  Smithtown Fire Department responds to a report of a traffic collision on 25A near Derby Place. Units arrive to find that an SUV had left the roadway and hit a utility pole head on. EMS crews transported one patient to the hospital while Rescue 9 and Engine 4 secured the scene. 

1130 hours. While on routine patrol in Commack, a Smithtown Fire Marshal monitors a BOLO for a vehicle that fled from an armed robbery at Kev's Tire Shop at 12 Renwick Ave in Kings Park. Shortly thereafter, the suspect vehicle drives past the Fire Marshal on Harned Road near the Commack Fire Department substation. The Fire Marshal advises the 4th precinct dispatcher of this while making a U-turn to follow the vehicle.

As Suffolk County Police Department units from multiple precincts converged on the area, The Fire Marshal continued to follow and observe the vehicle and relay their whereabouts to the police dispatcher. The suspect vehicle stopped for a red light in the right turn lane on Motor Parkway at Commack Road. The Fire Marshal maintained a position behind the vehicle while waiting for assistance. Suffolk Police sector car 220 was the first police department unit to arrive, The police officer and the Fire Marshal performed a felony stop on the vehicle, pulling each suspect out at gun point. Additional units from the 2nd, 3rd and 4th precincts as well as ESU, K-9 and Highway Patrol arrived as the subjects were being taken into custody. 

As a result of the actions of the Smithtown Fire Marshal , two brothers, Keyon and Kristian Miller as well as Bunice Knight III were arrested and charged with robbery in the first degree. Kenyon and Kristian Miller are accused of entering Kev's Tire Shop where Kenyon allegedly physically attacked an employee. Kristin is accused of pointing a handgun at the victim and threatened to shoot the victim unless he handed over his money. The victim handed over his cash and the suspects fled in a 2014 Toyota Camry being driven by Knight.

Kenyon Miller, 21, Kristin Miller, 19 of 902 Broadway in Brentwood and Knight III of 38 Mississippi Avenue in Bayshore, were arrested and charged with Robbery 1st degree. The were held overnight at the 4th Precinct in Hauppauge and were scheduled to be arraigned in First District Court on December 20th. 

The vehicle was impounded as evidence.

Kudos to the Suffolk County Police officer at the scene of the robbery for quickly broadcasting the bolo on the vehicle and a great job by the Fire Marshal. The interagency cooperation between the Town of Smithtown Department of Public Safety (where the Fire Marshal is assigned) and the Suffolk County Police Department has always been strong, positive and productive. A fine job by all involved. Smithtown Fire Marshals are NYS Peace Officers. The Fire Marshals are armed and have the power to make arrests pursuant to their duties. 

Photo courtesy of Lou Scannon

Photo courtesy of Lou Scannon

0552 hours. While operating at the working house fire at 1274 Waverly Avenue in Farmingville, the Ronkonkoma Fire Department was activated for a house fire at 2 Tarkington Road. Units arrived and encountered heavy fire through the roof of a two story private dwelling. Mutual aid was requested from Lakeland, Holbrook, Holtsville, Nesconset. Crews pushed into the building with numerous hosel lines battling fire on the first and second floor and in the attic. The fire was placed under control at approximately 630. Story will be finished and photos added shortly