Riverhead fire marshal

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.

Scott’s Pointe, an amusement park in Calverton formerly known as Island Water Park, was cited earlier this month by Riverhead Town authorities for building a go-kart race track and pickleball courts on its property without permits or site plan approvals, and other violations of town law.

Lithium ion batteries from an e-bike shop that caught fire and led to the death of four people in New York City were transported and have been temporarily stored by a Manorville environmental contracting and remediation company.

The Riverhead Home Depot reopened for business this morning following a fire Monday that damaged its main entrance. That entrance is closed but the store opened using the building's other entrances.

A long-vacant house set back in the woods off Main Road in Riverhead was destroyed by a fire thought to be set by a downed tree pulling down power lines near the house, which was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters responded to a 2 a.m. call.

Riverhead should restore its third fire marshal position, cut in 2011, the town and county fire chiefs councils say. A fire prevention inspector is not enough.

The spilt oil discharged from a sump in the building into the parking lot storm drains, then percolated to the surface after heavy rains earlier this week, Riverhead Fire Marshal Craig Zitek said.