EMFD Stays Busy Over the Holidays
With the 2025 holiday season in full swing, the time came for East Meadow volunteers to hit the streets to spread holiday cheer throughout our community. Over the past few […]
EMFS Stops Blaine Avenue Basement Fire While Rescuing a Cat
75 East Meadow volunteers responded to the fire with another 20 called in on the mutual aids.
Busy EMFD Hits 2nd Working House Fire in a Week
On September 28, 2025, East Meadow firefighters responded to a house fire on Merrick Avenue near Prospect Avenue just after 10 p.m. Chief of Department Michael J. Wood arrived to find heavy smoke pouring from the two-story home and transmitted a working fire. Crews from Engines 612 and 614 and Ladder 617 quickly went to work, locating and extinguishing an attic fire that began in the kitchen. With support from mutual aid departments, 70 East Meadow volunteers brought the blaze under control within 30 minutes. No injuries were reported.
EMFD Gains Control Over Maitland Street Inferno
Damage to the home was extensive throughout. There were no injuries.
E.M.F.D. Attack Stops Eight Street House Fire
On May 26th at 1:36 am, EMFD volunteers from Engines 1, 2, 3, 4, Ladders 1, 2, and Rescue 5 were alerted to a reported House Fire with possible persons […]
E.M.F.D. Attacks Vincent Drive House Fire
EMFD Volunteers from Engines 1, 2, 3, 4, Ladders 1, 2, and Rescue 5 were alerted to a reported House Fire with possible persons trapped on Vincent Drive.
EMFD Gains Control Over Erma Drive Shed Fire
On November 19th, 2024, East Meadow volunteers were alerted to a structure fire on Erma Drive. As members ran into the fire stations, they could easily see the fiery conditions […]
EMFD Relocates to Rockland County for Battle with the Jenning’s Creek Wildland Fire
On November 7th, 1014, with severe drought conditions and wildland fire progressing from coast to coast, the Greenwood Lake Fire Department, FDNY, and those agencies along the New York – […]
EMFD Quickly Knocks Down Greenbelt Lane Residential Fire
While just completing operations at two fire calls, radios blared with Nassau County Firecom announcing a general alarm for a bedroom fire on Greenbelt Lane.
E.M.F.D. Takes Control of 4am Prospect Avenue Inferno
On August 27th at 4:11 East Meadow FD volunteers were alerted by Nassau County Firecom for a House Fire on Prospect Avenue. Within minutes, Chief of Department James Walsh, 2nd […]