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Lakeview F.D. hopes for best, trains for worst out at a real fire — air packs, full turnout gear — and we go in with the hose, guys go on searchOn the night of Oct. 5, mem- es and do what we normally do bers of the Lakeview Fire at a real fire.” Department trained at the NasSkeleton crews, which are sau County Fire Service Acade- small groups of three firefightmy in a simulated, high-pressure ers, performed evolutions, which emergency similar are rounds of trainto the massive Sept. ing operations. Fully 19 fire on Eagle Avedressed crews took nue and Woodfield turns on two simuRoad that left apartlated emergencies, ments and businessrunning through es in ruins. checklists and perCrews, such as forming emergency Engine 414, Ladder m e a s u re s b e fo re 411 and Ambulance extinguishing each 418, were challenged fire. First respondto short-handed ers were put to the operations on an JAMES GALIA test, deciding in real academy training time how they would Chief, prop known as the extinguish the fire, Garden Apartments. Lakeview Fire what types of T wo p e t r o l e u m - Department searches they would fueled fires were set conduct to save lives in large pans in the and escort or pull two-story prop, including one in people out, and how they would the first-floor kitchen and one in vent the roof to prevent an explothe second-floor bedroom. sion and clear the area. “We have this big can, and During and after the evolu[Fire Service Academy instruc- tions, three academy instructors tors] light it up and let it get nice stood by to instruct department and smoky in there,” Lakeview members with constructive critiFire Department Assistant cism. “It’s good for the younger Chief Michael Joyce said. “The guys especially, guys who don’t heat builds up, and we wear our have too much experience equipment that we always wear CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
By LISA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com
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t’s the closest to the real thing as we can get in a training environment.
Courtesy Lesley McAvoy
A STORY WALK at the West Hempstead Library in April helped inspire the community art walk.
Malverne, W.H. libraries gear up for ‘Great Give Back’ By JORDAN VALLONE jvallone@liherald.com
Some may be familiar with the term “the Great Give Back” — coined by the Suffolk County Libraries Directors Association in 2017 as a day when public library patrons across New York take part in community-service projects and experiences. Expanding from Suffolk County to Nassau County and other regions of the state in
2018, the Great Give Back has become an expansive, cooperative initiative that many libraries participate in — including the Malverne and West Hempstead public libraries — both of which will host activities to give back to the community. This year, the Great Give Back is on Saturday. Many libraries, however, have expanded on this single day to multiple days, weeks or an
entire month. In the Malver ne-West Hempstead area, library patrons can expect a Community Art Walk at the West Hempstead Library on Oct. 16, 17 and 18, and an ongoing snack-bag drive for the Mary Brennan INN at the Malverne Library, which will conclude Oct. 16. T h e We s t H e m p s t e a d Library got involved with the CONTINUED ON PAGE 5