Riverhead Fire Department

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.

A winning team of Riverhead Fire Department chefs, who took first place in the Battle of the Badges cook-off this year, donated their $4,000 price to Autism Speaks.

Ex-captain Paul Sparrow, who joined Riverhead Fire Department on Oct. 21,1969, was recognized by the department this week.

Kids of all ages enjoyed watching firefighters' demonstrations, fire prevention lessons and activities, including a "wet-down" of new apparatus at Riverhead Fire Department's open house today at headquarters. Photos.