Massapequa Park Burns While Residents Are Out, Fire Marshal Says

MASSAPEQUA PARK, NY — A Massapequa Park home was the site of a 65-person fire response Sunday after a fire broke out in the attic while the house’s occupants weren't home, the Nassau County Fire Marshal’s office said.

The fire marshal’s office said the fire was called in at 11 a.m. Sunday, with first responders from the South Farmingdale Fire Department seeing the blaze in the attic of the one-story house on Barbara Circle.

Mutual aid, officials said, came from the Amityville, Bethpage, East Farmingdale, Farmingdale, Massapequa, North Massapequa and Seaford departments, with a total of about 65 firefighters on the scene of the blaze bringing it under control in an hour.

The local building department was notified and the fire marshal’s office is investigating the cause of the blaze in tandem with the NCPD arson bomb squad, officials said. Fire officials did not say residents were displaced by the fire, only that they were out at the time it occurred. On the day of the blaze, officials said, the Red Cross was not contacted.