{"id":1939,"date":"2026-02-11T17:51:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:51:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:51:02","slug":"one-dead-three-injured-in-early-morning-long-island-blaze-fully-engulfed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1939","title":{"rendered":"One dead, three injured in early morning Long Island blaze: &#8216;Fully engulfed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F02%2F120971937.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A three-alarm fire early Wednesday morning ravaged a row of homes, leaving one person dead and three others \u2014 including a pair of Nassau County cops \u2014 suffering from smoke inhalation, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Bellmore Fire Department was dispatched to the blaze shortly after 4:30 a.m., when firefighters found \u201ca fully involved house with encroachment to a neighboring house,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1540917177907252&amp;set=a.568698648462448\">officials said on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMultiple units are staged and operating on Bellmore Ave. at Chapman Ave.,\u201d the department said in a follow up post. \u201cPlease proceed with caution.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>A three-alarm fire in Bellmore early Wednesday left one person dead and three others injured. <span class=\"credit\">Paul Mazza for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Fire officials said the fire in Bellmore started in one home and damaged two others alongside. <span class=\"credit\">Paul Mazza for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It took at least 100 firefighters from a dozen Long Island departments needed more than 90 minutes to get the massive fire under control, <a href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/multiple-departments-on-scene-of-massive-house-fire-in-bellmore\">News12 reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Bellmore Fire Chief Eric Ozechowski told the outlet that firefighters were told at the scene that one resident was trapped inside the home at 116 Chapman Ave., which was fully involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[We] got dressed and made an attempt to locate the victim,\u201d the chief said. \u201cWe, unfortunately, could not find the victim who was there. We were pushed out by heavy heat and heavy fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The early morning fire killed a resident in one of the homes and injured three others, including two cops. <span class=\"credit\">Paul Mazza for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nassau County fire officials told News12 a second person inside the house was pulled out alive and rushed to a local hospital, where two county cops were also treated for smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n<p>Two other homes were damaged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw the house across the street fully engulfed in flames and we came running downstairs and we watched it jump from one house to another house,\u201d neighbor Kathie Tinucci told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>No firefighters were hurt while snuffing out the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not released the identity of the resident who died, and have not revealed what may have caused the deadly fire. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/11\/us-news\/one-dead-three-injured-in-early-morning-long-island-blaze-fully-engulfed\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three-alarm fire early Wednesday morning ravaged a row of homes, leaving one person dead and three others \u2014 including a pair of Nassau County cops&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}