Crime & Safety

Firefighters Put Out Two-Story Blaze

Syosset Firefighters, as well as firefighters from the Town of Oyster Bay, Jericho and Woodbury, helped extinguish the Winthrop Avenue house fire Wednesday.

The Syosset Fire Department put out a large two-story house fire on Winthrop Avenue in Syosset Wednesday, a fire most likely caused by severe weather conditions. 

Firefighters responded to the fire at 1:35 p.m. after there was a call for smoke in the house. When inside the house, firefighters found large flames in the ceiling of the first and second floors, according to Syosset Fire Department Second Assistant Chief Pete Silver. 

Silver said an elderly woman and her daughter were inside the home at the time of the fire, but managed to get out unharmed before firefighters arrived. 

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At the same time of the fire around 1:45 p.m., Silver said the department had gotten more than 10 other alarm calls in the area, due to the severe weather conditions. He said that the house fire was "electrical in nature", and was most likely caused by the storm. 

The Syosset Fire Department received mutual aid from Plainview, Oyster Bay, Hicksville and Jericho to help put out the fire, and the fire took nine pieces of apparatus to extinguish and was put out in about an hour, according to Silver. 

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