Multi-alarm fire damages businesses on Long Island

A row of five stores went up in flames in a three-alarm fire in Nassau County overnight.

The fire started burned through the stores, comprising the Cedarhurst Shoppes, on Central Avenue in Cedarhurst just before 3 a.m. Friday.

Lawrence Cedarhurst Fire Department Chief Edward Koehler said firefighters received a call from police at 2:49 a.m. Friday reporting smoke coming from the building.

"We arrived in a couple minutes, found heavy fire conditions in the basement," said Koehler. "The building is an old building, believe it or not, and has a common basement with numerous partitions, storage. So (firefighters) met a lot of resistance at the very beginning."

The fire spread through the basement to all the stores.

Five stores, a restaurant, pizzeria, ice cream shop, pharmacy and cleaners, all sustained heavy fire and smoke damage.

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