{"id":227317,"date":"2026-05-11T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227317\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:53:08","slug":"fire-heavily-damages-garden-city-park-service-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227317\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire heavily damages Garden City Park service station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire heavily damaged a service station in Garden City Park Sunday night, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters received a 911 call for a building fire\u00a0at the BP Gas and Service Station on Jericho Turnpike and arrived to find the building and its three garage bays fully engulfed in flames. One car was also ablaze, the Nassau County fire marshal&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>An immediate second alarm was transmitted, bringing 75 firefighters from 14 companies to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>They brought the fire under control in less than an hour.\u00a0No civilian or firefighter injuries were reported, the fire marshal&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Fire marshal investigators were on the scene along with Nassau arson detectives; the cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p> <img alt=\"Firefighters at the scene of a Garden City Park service...\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"433.125\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778514788_503_image.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Firefighters at the scene of a Garden City Park service station blaze Sunday night. Credit: Photograph by Lou Minutoli<\/p>\n<p>The Town of North Hempstead Building Department was\u00a0notified.<\/p>\n<p>Hazardous materials experts from the state and Nassau County were evaluating\u00a0runoff from the station\u00a0to\u00a0minimize any environmental impact, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire heavily damaged a service station in Garden City Park Sunday night, authorities said. Firefighters received a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[8015,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-227317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-nassau","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}