Welcome to the Official page of the Westhampton Beach Volunteer Fire Department. We are located in Suffolk County, New York and approximately 80 miles East of New York City.
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Members of the department will be gathering at the firehouse this morning to honor all of those who lost their lives. As a tribute, we will be sounding our fire siren at the times of six major events that occurred that day.
8:46am: American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower
On Thursday, August 12th at approximately 1:30pm the department was dispatched to a brush fire on the north side of Gabreski Airport behind the gun range. The first arriving Engine 7-8-1 stretched a booster line over the berm at the back of the range and began knocking down the fire. The Stumpjumper 7-8-12 made its way around the range and extinguished most of the fire. Due to the weather conditions ... (Full Story & Photos)
An automatic alarm on dune road would turn out to be more then a false alarm. At 8:14PM we were dispatched to the end of dune road. 7-8-33 was first on scene and quickly updated the responding units of a smell of smoke from outside the residence. He was able to make entry for the first responding apparatus. 7-8-1 arrived soon after and began searching for the source of the smoke. A team went down ... (Full Story)
On Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at 7:09 pm, the Westhampton Beach Fire Department was notified for a smoke investigation south of Sunrise Hwy, west of County Road 31 in the area of the Hampton West Estates. While the initial units were responding, the County Fire/Rescue dispatch center advised that they were now receiving numerous calls for a brush fire south of the houses on Hamilton Ave in the Pine Barrens ... (Full Story & Photos)
