Crime & Safety

Garden City Firefighters Battle Car Fire

Cadillac completely destroyed; no injuries.

A civilian in the Girl Scouts building on Ring Road notified the Garden City Fire Department reporting heavy black smoke in the area, according to Fire Captain Gil Frank.

Smoke was billowing from a Cadillac parked in the Roosevelt Field Mall parking lot.

The fire department notified FIRECOM, anticipating the fire was in Westbury's district, according to Captain Frank. "Both departments operated to extinguish a Cadillac that was completely destroyed," he said.

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No injuries and no determination of cause of the fire at this time. A video of the fire, which can be viewed to the right of this article, was sent to the fire department.


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