Two Firefighters Hospitalized After Fighting Baldwin Basement Fire, NCFM Says

BALDWIN, NY — 75 firefighters were scrambled to a Baldwin home Monday night after a fire in the basement spread to the first floor, officials said.

The Nassau County Fire Marshal’s office said the fire on Matheron Avenue was called in at 8:32 p.m., with first responders seeing the basement fire in the two-story home having extended to the first floor. The occupants of the home, officials said, had already self-evacuated by the time firefighters arrived.

The Baldwin Fire Department was first on the scene, with mutual aid coming from Freeport, Hempstead, Roosevelt, South Hempstead and Uniondale departments, amounting to a total of 75 firefighters that took about 35 minutes to get the fire under control, officials said. Two of the firefighters were hospitalized and evaluated for smoke inhalation and superficial burns, officials said, while the two adults and one minor living at the house were displaced.

In the aftermath of the blaze, the local building department was called to investigate the home that the fire marshal’s office has said is uninhabitable. The fire marshal’s office and NCPD arson/bomb squad are investigating the cause of the fire, officials said.