North Broadway [12-25-19]

On Christmas morning 2019 firefighters operated on the scene of a multi-alarm fire at North Massapequa fire headquarters on North Broadway just off the Southern State Parkway. The fire was first reported minutes after six a.m. by a passing police officer. The fire ravaged the department’s tower ladder designated Ladder 661 [an early 2000s ALF] and damaged the two engines and an ambulance that were housed on site as well; however, the fate of those apparatus is unknown at this time. There was extension to the building; although, firefighters quickly knocked down the main body of fire and kept it to contained to the apparatus area. Among the departments called for mutual aid was Bethpage, Levittown, Farmingdale, Massapequa, Wantagh, and Seaford among others. The cause of the fire is currently under investigation.