January 20, 1948 A fire that reportedly started around heating equipment, gutted the 3 story Port Jefferson Post Office building located at 202 Main Street…
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March 27, 1947 A midnight fire destroyed the barn and valuable farm equipment of Joseph Cannataro. The fire was discovered by John Shelton of the…
March 22, 1947. Alarm was originally reported as a “White House”. As such, the FD responds to the T.J. White House in head of the…
March 12, 1947 I do not know where this house was. A story in Newsday references a fire at this residence, stating that the fire…
March 12, 1947 Mentioned in Smithtown FD 100th Anniverary Album. Also referenced in the “History of the Smithtown Fire Department 1956” No real information found.
February 16, 1947 Forty to fifty persons were injured, eight of them hospitalized, when a Long Island Rail Road train derailed after hitting an open…
January 30 1947 The Kings Park Fire Department has presented an iron lung to the St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson. The Iron Lung was…
March 16, 1946. St. James FD receives a brand new hook and ladder manufactured by Ward LaFrance. This is the first new piece of apparatus…
March 4, 1946 Smithtown Fire Departments Board of Fire Commissioners take an option on the Conn Property on Main Street as a site for a…
January 20, 1946. I dont have much on this fire. It was somewhere on Townline Road and took three and one half hours to extinguish.…