Riverhead Fire Department

The Riverhead Fire Department’s "Santa Run" has been rescheduled for Sunday, Dec. 13, beginning at 12 noon.

Beginning at 3 p.m. Saturday, Santa and his helpers will travel through the town aboard a Riverhead Fire Department truck to kick off the holiday season.

Riverhead firefighters extinguished a structure fire on Trout Brook Lane in Aquebogue this afternoon.

Motorists are asked to avoid Roanoke Avenue and Northville Turnpike Wednesday and Thursday for the drive-by services of Judge Allen M. Smith.

Riverhead Fire Department is coordinating a seven-department parade past Peconic Bay Medical Center Tuesday evening at 6:30. Jamesport, Wading River, Flanders, Manorville, Mattituck and Eastport fire departments are scheduled to participate, Riverhead Fire Chief Tim Corwin said today.

Firefighters were called to the scene at about 4:10 p.m. after a neighbor saw smoke coming from the home on Glynwood Drive.

Riverhead Fire Department knocked down a fire at the rear of the vacant former Toys R Us store on Route 58 early Monday morning.

A 911 caller at approximately 12:15 a.m. reported smoke coming out of the residence, located north of Route 58 on Woodcrest Avenue.

A wrong-way driver on the Long Island Expressway in Riverhead lost control and crashed on a median, his car coming to a stop with its front end hanging off a bridge abutment.

The interior of the ground-floor shop was heavily burned but firefighters were able to contain the fire to the one store. There are four storefronts in the building, which abuts the new five-story apartment building.