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Real Estate • M ortgages • Ins urance
Iceman replica comes to Suffolk
Also: ‘Flat Stanley’ at the CMpaC, Triad concert series returns, Maple Sugaring Day at Benner’s Farm
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photo above and bottom left from eaton’s Neck Fire Department, bottom right from SCpD
above and bottom left, a view of the home after the fire departments ensured the fire didn’t spread. Bottom left, SCPd’s officer Matthew Funaro.
Duo saves Eaton’s Neck woman from fire MC Teens Missing
Two teens go missing in Middle Country.
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By elana glowatz and viCtoria eSPinoza
An officer and a good Samaritan from Kings Park rescued an elderly woman from a burning home in Eaton’s Neck on Feb. 10, according to the Suffolk County Police Department. The 2nd Precinct’s Matthew Funaro responded to the house fire on Old Winkle Point Road in Eaton’s Neck at 4:45 p.m. to find flames and heavy smoke coming from the second floor, police said. He went inside and found 88-year-old Helen Morris, who was in a wheelchair, in the firstfloor living room. With help from 55-year-old oil technician and Kings Park resident Joseph Cartelli, Funaro carried Morris out to safety, police said. She was then transported to Huntington Hospital by the Eaton’s Neck Rescue Squad and treated for minor, non-life-
threatening injuries, Eaton’s Neck Assistant Fire Chief Richard Rizzuti said. According to Rizzuti, the Eaton’s Neck and Northport fire departments worked together to put out the blaze at the house located just off Northport Bay. “It was challenging because
of the terrain,” Rizzuti said in a phone interview. “There were 30 winding steps down to her house because her property is located at the beach level.” Rizzuti said it took a while to get a specialty hose line set up because of the landscape, but by 6:15 p.m., the fire was com-
pletely out. He also said they battled a content fire due to the fact that only the bed and comforters went up in flames and none of the structural parts of the house. Detectives from the SCPD’s Arson Squad were investigating the cause of the fire, police said.