Lanie Place [12-21-20]

In the early morning hours of Monday, December 21st, 2020 the Westbury Fire Department was called to a structure fire in the vicinity of Trader Joe’s on Old Country Road. Westbury Chief of Department Kenny Gass was among the first to arrive on scene and found a well involved house fire in the dead end of Lanie Place in the Carle Place Fire District. Westbury Fire Dispatch was notified along with Nassau County Fire Communications who alerted the Carle Place Fire Department. Collectively firefighters stretched and operated multiple hand lines to extinguish the fire. Westbury Ladder 962 was also put into operation for a brief time. Among the departments called for mutual aid was Mineola, Williston Park, Garden City, East Williston, Roslyn, and Bethpage. The cause of the fire is under investigation.