Crime & Safety

North Fork Fire Department Members Help Quell Brush Fire

Some are returning home, others are still helping mop up.

Fire department crews from rushed to help with the long process of extinguishing the brush fire that and spread for miles in Ridge and Manorville throughout the afternoon and evening hours.

And now that the fire’s out, many of those volunteers are returning home.

Tony Berkoski, first assistant chief in said that at about 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday, there was really no fire left.

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“There were hot pockets here and there, but by that time it was mostly gone,” Berkoski said.

John Hinton of the Cutchogue Fire Department said that he and his colleagues did have a fight on their hands Monday night, and 14 fire department members were on the scene per day.

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also sent crews Monday and worked with brush trucks, GI trucks and engines during the blaze. Ambulances were also on the scene, though neither Cutchogue nor Mattituck reported any injuries.

By Tuesday afternoon, Mattituck firefighter Jim Cox said there was “nothing left to catch fire.” A representative from said that new fire chief Wade Manwaring and his crew were still on the clean up scene late Tuesday afternoon.


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