Wantagh Avenue [12-31-21]

On the morning of Friday, December 31st, 2021, the Wantagh Fire Department was called to a car versus building at the intersection of Wantagh Avenue and Sunrise Lane. When firefighters arrived on scene, they were met with a single vehicle accident in which a pickup truck lost control and struck a pole as well as two stores [a liquor store and a dry cleaner] within a one-story taxpayer. There was no entrapment and the driver, the only person inside the vehicle, was not seriously injured. Wantagh firefighters secured the vehicle and structure under the command of Wantagh Second Assistant Chief Mathewson [6902].