10.23.2020 COVID-19 Orient firehouse closed to non-emergencies after members were exposed to COVID-19 A dozen Orient Fire Department members or associates were exposed to COVID-19 at the district’s budget hearing Tuesday, the district confirmed in an email Friday afternoon. As a result,...
02.28.2020 News Fire destroys garage at East Marion home A detached garage in East Marion was destroyed by fire Friday afternoon. The call came in around 1:15 p.m. and firefighters from East Marion, Orient and Greenport Fire Departments...
02.15.2020 Columns Guest Spot: A fire commissioner reflects on his time I went into the job knowing how much I had to teach them. I came out of it realizing how much I had learned. There was a vacancy on...
11.23.2019 Police Orient firefighters honored for helping save three men in 2018 water rescue Orient Fire Department members Richard Gillooly and Angel Medina were awarded the Bronze Medal of Valor by the Vocational Educational and Extension Board of Suffolk County for their heroism...
05.24.2019 Police Ferry crew quickly extinguishes fire in vehicle that had just boarded The engine of a vehicle that had just boarded the Cross Sound Ferry boat Mary Ellen caught fire Friday afternoon, forcing the boat the be evacuated as crews quickly...
12.02.2018 Police Orient home damaged in afternoon fire A Sunday afternoon fire damaged an Orient home. No one was injured.
11.08.2018 Police Peconic Star crew rescues man clinging to capsized boat in Sound A Nesconset man was rescued from a capsized boat in Long Island Sound Thursday morning after clinging to the vessel for 30 minutes.
05.02.2018 Police Rescuers who saved three men last month honored by Coast Guard Members of the Orient Fire Department, Southold Town Police Department and Plum Island ferry were honored Tuesday by the U.S. Coast Guard for their role in a water rescue...
04.21.2018 Editorials Editorial: Over a two-day period, lives were saved On Saturday evening, with dusk soon to arrive, the wind rising and temperatures dropping, rescuers put their own lives on the line to save three men whose boat, a...
04.19.2018 Police Plum Island ferry, Orient firefighters pulled off water rescue in rough conditions On a cold and blustery evening Saturday, a group of determined rescuers saved three men whose boat had sunk in Plum Gut, pulling one of them — who showed...
