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It takes more than a village to fight a fire while we’re dealing with the fire at hand.” The coordination happens When a fire breaks out on t h ro u g h F i re c o m , N a s s a u Nassau County’s North Shore, County’s centralized dispatch the sound of sirens doesn’t just service, which maintains premean one fire department is planned mutual aid responses responding; it’s a call to a that take into account the nature and severity broader network of of an emergency as support. well as its location. In the villages “We’ll radio to and hamlets from them and we’ll tell Bayville to Glen them what we Cove, fire departneed,” Barbera ments collaborate said. through a system The mutual aid known as mutual system is both aid, a coordinated highly organized response plan in and flexible. Any of which departments the county’s 71 fire rely on one another de par tments can for equipment, per- FRANcESco request specialized sonnel and exper- BARBERA resources such as tise. Chief, dive teams, tankers “At the transmisAtlantic Steamer or marine units, sion of a working depending on the fire, if we feel that Fire Company unique challenges it’s necessary to of the call. call in mutual aid units, we’re These plans have evolved getting three other departments to the scene of the fire,” over decades, and the countywide coordination infrastrucFrancesco Barbera, chief of the Atlantic Steamer Fire Com- ture predates even the Avianca pany, in Oyster Bay, explained. plane disaster of 1990, in which “They’ll come to our headquar- 73 people were killed when a ters and Company No. 1’s head- jetliner crashed in Cove Neck. “It’s been something that’s quarters and stay here in case another alar m comes over Continued on page 2
By WIll SHEElINE
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Courtesy Long Island High School of the Arts
Jack Kelly, an incoming eighth-grader at Locust Valley Middle School, got the chance to perform live at Long island High School for the arts’ Summer arts academy.
Joel Foundation supports youth art education program By RoKSANA AMID & WIll SHEElINE ramid@liherald.com
Three students from Locust Valley, Glen Cove and Bayville are making the most of their summer vacation, trading leisure time for spotlight moments through a prestigious arts training program — thanks to full scholarships from the Joel Foundation. Stella Fraser, 15, of Locust Valley; Rose Sullivan, 14, of Glen Cove; and Jack Kelly, 13, of Bayville were among 14 Long Island students awarded full scholarships to attend the Long Island High School for the Arts’ Summer Arts Academy, a four-week intensive program that offers pre-profes-
sional, conservatory-style training in Syosset. The Joel Foundation, co-founded by legendary musician Billy Joel and his wife, Alexis, has made it possible for these students, and many others, to access high-quality arts education without the financial burden that often limits access to programs of this caliber. “My husband and I want young people on Long Island to have access to high-quality music education,” Alexis Joel wrote in a statement. “They should not have to leave Long Island to supplement their passion and career path. Programs like LIHSA’s Summer Arts Academy give students a place to grow, Continued on page 6
nce you say you’re a firefighter, you’re welcomed in with open arms.