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June 4, 2008 15:56:33
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N.J. fire suspected source of LI smell
BY JENNIFER SMITH | jennifer.smith@newsday.com
2:27 PM EDT, June 4, 2008
Emergency management officials said a burning smell reported along Long Island's South Shore on Wednesday morning most likely stemmed from a New Jersey house fire.
Fire departments in Hewlett and Malverne began getting calls about the smell at about 7:15 a.m., said James Callahan, Nassau's commissioner of the Nassau Office of Emergency Management.
The odor, which some said smelled like burning rubber or plastic, then moved east and north, prompting similar calls to fire departments in Babylon and Islip, he said.
None of the Long Island fire departments dispatched to investigate the source of the smell found anything, Callahan said.
Fire and emergency management officials in New York City, which received inquiries from residents along the Brooklyn and Queens shorelines, told Callahan that they thought the odor stemmed from a large house fire in Jersey City.
The blaze started around 11 p.m. Tuesday and raged for two hours before fightfighters brought it under control, according to WNBC.
Nassau health officials are monitoring local hospitals for people complaining of respiratory problems; none has turned up so far, Callahan said.
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