Dune Road Garage Fire

The Quogue Fire Department was paged out fora structure fire on Dune Road. Westhampton Beach also responded as part of an automatic mutual aid plan. The fire was called in by a passerby and was verified shortly thereafterby Quogue Village Police officers and by East Quogue Chief Ted Jankowski, who happened to be in the vicinity. Quogue Second Assistant Chief Dave Schaffauer and Westhampton Beach Second Assistant Chief Larry Saccente arrived on scene simultaneously and reported heavy black smoke coming from a garage attached to a pool house nearthe front of the oceanside property. AWesthampton Beach engine arrived, followed by a Quogue engine and Quogue Chief Mike Nelson, who assumed command. Firefighters were able to force open the garage doors and commenced pouring wateron the fire, containing it to the garage area. The firefighters were hampered by the dense smoke and by numerous pieces of outdoorfurniture that were being stored in the garage forthe winter. The fire was quickly extinguished, but the firefighters spent the next hour-and-a-half doing overhaul operations. Responding units were from Westhampton Beach, Quogue, East Quogue, Westhampton War Memorial Ambulance, Flanders Northampton Volunteer Ambulance Company, Quogue Village Police Department, Westhampton Village Police, Southampton Town Fire Marshal and a Suffolk County Fire and Rescue coordinator. Dune Road was closed in both directions forthe duration of the incident. The cause of the fire was underinvestigation.

- Fire News photos provided by the Westhampton Beach FD