Restaurants & Bars

Farmingdale's Lotus Restaurant Catches Fire

Firefighters responded to the Chinese and Japanese restaurant on Thursday morning. See video of the fire inside the story.

FARMINGDALE, NY — Lotus Restaurant, a Chinese and Japanese eatery, caught fire on Thursday morning. Local firefighters responded to the restaurant, at 345 Conklin St., at 10:53 a.m., Nassau police said.

No injuries were reported as of 1 p.m., police said.

Video shared by Nassau County Fire Service Academy to Facebook shows fire and smoke billowing from the roof of Lotus.

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Bethpage Fire Department helped douse the flames.

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