This was pretty wild. My wife had gone out walking around 8AM when she called me and said there is a big
fire somewhere. Looked out my window and saw huge black smoke rising into the blue sky. Put on my scanner as
I dressed and learned it was somewhere by the LIE. Headed down Old Country Road and pulled into the hotel
parking lot just west of the LIE service road off Round Swamp. I wasnt the only one. As Nassau 5 flew low
overhead the smoke and flames billowed out of the truck with amazing intensity. There was a massive FD/PD
response from both counties as the accident was right on the border on the LIE. They even brought in
Fire/Rescue 1 Foam Truck from MacArthur Airport which was instrumental in putting out the blaze. And just
when you thought it was over it flared up again. Took probably about two hours to fully extinguish.
But traffic was a disaster as the highway was closed in both directions as the heat caused the overhead sign to
collapse.
Chopper 12 arrived later and learned that earlier a woman in a car involved in the crash was medevaced out to
NUMC.
Even saw a flight of 3 UH-60s out east heading SW bound.
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