CENTEREACH 13/35 Occupants Within

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Centereach FD had a 13/35 at approx 0450 hrs. this morning. The location was 11 Fulton st. cross of S. Washington with reports of people trapped. All Chiefs responded Chief 30 gave a 13/35 and said gear up there are people within. Chiefs 30 and 32 I believe made the first two rescues unsure who got the third victim. I could be wrong on this of who got and did what. The first two victims were in cardiac arrest and CPR was being done not sure of the third victim. All transported to Stony Brook hospital. Mutual aid to Selden for an ambulance to the scene. A GOOD JOB done by Centereach.

[Taz]

Mother, daughter killed in Centereach house fire

BY ANDREW STRICKLER and MATTHEW CHAYES | [e-mail]; [e-mail]
11:43 AM EDT, May 23, 2009

A mother and her adult daughter were killed Saturday morning in a fire in their Centereach home, Suffolk County police said.

The women, identified by authorities as Dorothy Reinhard, 77, and Elaine Moore, 60, were longtime roommates on Fulton Street, neighbors said.

Authorities said they do not believe the circumstances of the fire are suspicious.

The fire was discovered by an upstairs tenant who was awakened by smoke about 4:45 a.m. The tenant, Jennifer Greco, went downstairs and found the door locked. Greco has been hospitalized, authorities said.

Reinhard and Moore were declared dead at Stony Brook University Medical Center, police said.

Neighbors said they awoke to sirens and smoke pouring out of the house.

Investigators late Saturday morning were taking pictures inside the house with Carl Reinhard - the 49-year-old son of Dorothy Reinhard and the brother of Elaine Moore - nearby.

He said his mother was a retired housewife and that his sister worked in a factory and was divorced with no children.

He said the entire house was recently renovated with new appliances and a new fire alarm.

"Everything was brand new, so what happened?" he said.

As authorities investigate the fire, Carl Reinhard has a difficult task ahead.

"I have to go tell my daughters they just lost their grandmother and their aunt," he said.