Hempstead Garage Fire Extends To House, Displaces 4, Fire Marshal Says

HEMPSTEAD, NY — Four people are out of their homes Tuesday after a fire broke out in a detached garage and spread to a house on Ann Street in Hempstead, fire officials said.

The Nassau County Fire Marshal’s office said the fire alarm was raised at 9:35 p.m. with the Hempstead Fire Department first to respond to the home. Upon arrival, fire officials said firefighters saw the fire in a detached two-car garage, with some minor spreading to the house and to another detached garage on a neighboring property.

With mutual aid from Baldwin, Elmont, Freeport, Garden City, Rockville Centre, Roosevelt, South Hempstead, Uniondale and West Hempstead departments, a team of about 150 firefighters were able to bring the fire under control within about 40 minutes, officials said.

In the aftermath of the blaze, the fire was being investigated by the fire marshal’s office and the NCPD arson/bomb squad. The two adults and two children who lived at the property, fire officials said, were displaced.