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Vol. 68, No. 14
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GCP firehouse mostly idle: former chief Policy curbs response during school hours BY M AY L A N L . STUDART
PHOTO BY MAYLAN STUDART
Garden City Park Fire Department Station 2 on 1030 Denton Ave. in New Hyde Park.
The Garden City Park Fire Department has severely curtailed emergency responses from one of the district’s two firehouses during school hours, according to a former chief. Under certain circumstances, fire district commissioners said, the district’s centrally located Station 2 at 1030 Denton Ave. has not been allowed to respond to emergencies on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. on the orders of Chief of Department Timothy Nacewicz.
Instead, volunteers must drive their cars to fire district headquarters at 2264 Jericho Turnpike in the southern part of the district to respond to the emergency call from there. The former chief of department, Augie Carnevale, complained about the reduced emergency response last Thursday at a meeting of the Garden City Park Water and Fire District Board of Commissioners, describing Station 2 as inactive. A full room of about 20 residents bombarded the commissioners with questions and expressed concerns for Continued on Page 103
Calls for tolerance at NHP mosque BY J OH N N U G E N T Religious and civic leaders came together at the Hillside Islamic Center in New Hyde Park last Thursday to express their
solidarity in response to the recent mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and a synagogue in Pittsburgh. Following traditional sunset prayers by members of the
Muslim community, Shaykh Ibad Wali, executive director and resident scholar of the Hillside Islamic Center, introduced leaders from several faiths and public officials who each gave a message of hope and unity to an audience of more than a hundred people. Wali welcomed everyone by saying, “I can’t express the joy that I feel in having you all here today.”
He underlined the religious theme of the evening by saying, “Let us come together because we believe in God. The common ground is that we believe in God.” Clergy representing different faiths gathered in the aftermath of the March 15 massacre in Christchurch, where 50 people died and 50 were injured in attacks at two mosques.# A 28-year-old man identified as
a white supremacist has been charged. “Alone I speak, but together we celebrate,” Mufti Farhan Mughal, director of the Islamic Center of Long Island, added as he spoke of the responsibility of all people to support each other. Nassau County Executive Laura Curran was on hand and said, “We stand in solidarity with the Muslim community. We Continued on Page 88
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