Fire damages two-story building in Plainview, displacing four

Two adults and two children have been displaced after a fire damaged parts of their apartment, according to the Nassau County Fire Marshal's office.  The family lived in the two-story, wood-frame mixed-used building, located on Hope Drive, at Old Country Road in Plainview, which also operated as a doctor’s office on the first floor, officials said. The Plainview Fire Department was dispatched at 11:36 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 2, and was assisted by fire departments from Syosset, Farmingdale, Melville, Bethpage, Hicksville and Jericho, led by Chief Andrew Cohen of the Plainview Fire Department. A deputy county fire coordinator from the fire marshal’s office also responded to the fire. According to the fire marshal, the fire departments found smoke coming from the structure, soon after transmitting a working fire. The fire was brought under control within 40 minutes with mutual aid from nearly 50 firefighters, the fire marshal said in a statement.  The occupants were alerted t