Riverhead Fire Department

Fire swept through a home on 19th Street in Wading River Wednesday. The occupants safely evacuated but two firefighters were injured in a partial collapse of the second floor and sent to the hospital for treatment of non life-threatening injuries.

Riverhead Fire Department installed new chiefs last night at the Riverhead Fire District Board of Commissioners meeting at department headquarters.

One resident and five staff members were taken to the hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation after an oxygen concentrator at a Riverhead nursing home caught fire early this morning.

Riverhead Fire Department honored 75-year member Marty Montag, age 98, at fire department headquarters Saturday night. Photos.

A fire did heavy damage to a home on Roanoke Avenue and sent one occupant to the hospital with lacerations to the head and burns to the face. Other occupants were treated at the scene for minor injuries.

Riverhead firefighters made a quick stop of a house fire on Linda Lane East late last night. Jamesport and Flanders fire departments responded to assist.

Unusually dry weather, an abundance of 'dry fuels', low relative humidity and strong winds combine to create high risk of fire spread.

Riverhead firefighters found themselves fighting two new brush fires Sunday afternoon, after being called back on Sunday morning to the scene of Saturday's brush fire, to douse a flare-up there.

Firefighters are back at the scene of an earlier brush fire in Baiting Hollow tonight working to knock down a flare-up in the woods on the bluff east of Friar’s Head golf course.

Firefighters have been working since 12:30 a.m. to control a wildfire on a large tract of woodlands along the coast in Baiting Hollow, just east of Friar's Head golf course.