3 Displaced After North Bellmore House Fire, 12th Working Fire This Week In Nassau County: NCFM

NORTH BELLMORE, NY — Three residents have been displaced due to a house fire in North Bellmore on Friday morning, fire marshals said.

This is the 12th working fire in Nassau County this week and the 37th in February so far – it’s also the 7th multiple-alarm fire this month, the Nassau County Fire Marshal's Office said.

The North Bellmore Fire Department was dispatched at 9:06 a.m. to a 2-story home on Little Neck Ave., near Old Britton Rd., and found a heavy fire, raising it to a second alarm, fire marshals said.

The fire was brought under control in approximately one hour and ten minutes with 75 firefighters on scene, and no injuries were reported, fire marshals said.

According to fire marshals, the initial receipt of the alarm was an automatic fire alarm, and then phone calls reporting the fire.

Mutual aid assistance was provided by fire departments from Wantagh, East Meadow, North Merrick, Uniondale, Bellmore, Levittown, and North Massapequa – all firefighting operations were under the command of Chief White of the North Bellmore FD, fire marshals said.

The Town of Hempstead Building Department was on scene to assess the damage to the home, and the NCFM Investigators and NCPD Arson Bomb Squad Detectives were on scene to determine the cause of the fire, fire marshals said.