Crime & Safety
Ex-Volunteer Wins Fire Department Raffle
On thousand tickets were sold for the Miller Place Fire Department Engine Company raffle.
A Port Jefferson Station resident won a 51-inch Samsung Plasma flat screen television in a local fire department raffle drawing July 4.
The Andrew Chereb Engine Company, a company in the Miller Place Fire Department sold 1000 raffle tickets over the course of a few weekends at the Miller Place .
On Wednesday, nine volunteer firefighters delivered the television to Fred Hettesheimer's home on South Columbia Street in Port Jefferson Station.
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"I'm enthused," said Hettescheimer who was once a volunteer in the between 1982 and 1983. "It's the biggest T.V. I've ever seen."
The Fire Department thanked Stop and Shop for supporting the community.