50 Firefighters Called To Scene Of Early Morning House Fire In Uniondale, NCFM Says

UNIONDALE, NY — Six people are out of their homes Tuesday after an early morning house fire drew the response of 50 firefighters from seven fire departments, the Nassau County Fire Marshal said.

According to fire officials, the fire was called in at 1:56 a.m. with Uniondale Fire Department first on the scene at a Lenox Avenue home.

With mutual aid from East Meadow, Freeport, Hempstead, North Bellmore, Roosevelt and South Hempstead, the fire was extinguished in about one hour, fire officials said. Complicating the response effort, the fire marshal's office said, was the presence of "heavy clutter conditions" in the home and an absence of smoke detectors.

In the wake of the fire, six people have been displaced from the home while the fire marshal's office and NCPD arson/bomb squad have begun an investigation into its cause, fire officials said.