Long Beach Restaurant Damaged In Friday Afternoon Fire, Fire Marshal Says

LONG BEACH, NY — A 50-person firefighting force scrambled to the Bungalow Grill in Long Beach Friday afternoon to put out a fire that had broken out in the basement, the Nassau County Fire Marshal’s office said.

According to fire officials, the alarm was raised at 12:35 p.m. Friday in the one-story restaurant on East Park Avenue, with Long Beach firefighters responding and receiving mutual aid from Freeport, Inwood, Lawrence-Cedarhurst, Oceanside, Point Lookout-Lido and Woodmere fire departments. That 50-person corps was able to bring the fire under control in about 30 minutes with no reported injuries, officials said.

In the aftermath of the fire, the Long Beach building department is investigating the building where the blaze took place while the county fire marshal and NCPD arson/bomb squad are investigating the cause of the fire, officials said.

One day later, a three-alarm fire in Island Park fire damaged Jordan Lobster Farms and took about 150 firefighters to extinguish.