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Two fires broke out within an hour on Long Island on Thursday morning.
A fire broke out at about 9:53 a.m. at a home in Garden City on Meadow Street, between College Place and Tremont Street, according to Nassau County Assistant Fire Chief James Hickman.
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Two fires broke out within an hour on Long Island on Thursday morning.
A fire broke out at about 9:53 a.m. at a home in Garden City on Meadow Street, between College Place and Tremont Street, according to Nassau County Assistant Fire Chief James Hickman.
All residents of the house escaped safely, but the building is uninhabitable, he said.
Seven fire brigades arrived on the scene and several firefighters were slightly injured, but no one had to go to hospital.
Hickman said the fire started in an attached garage and spread to the rest of the house. Firefighters extinguished the fire within an hour, he said.
At approximately 11:40 a.m., the driver of a 2024 box truck was delivering meat and fish to a restaurant behind the Elwood Shopping Center, located at 1932 Jericho Turnpike in Dix Hills.
After the driver got out of the truck and made the delivery, the truck went into regeneration mode, a self-cleaning process that occurs when soot builds up, causing the truck to catch fire, according to the Dix Hills Fire Department.
The department extinguished the fire in about 20 minutes. No one was injured and the truck sustained no structural damage, the department said.
Maureen Mullarkey is a breaking news reporter at Newsday. She previously worked as a reporter for Patch, where she covered a series of Long Island stories on topics including the bankruptcy of the Rockville Centre diocese and the Babylon School District abuse scandals.
