On the morning of June 1, 2018, Lynbrook firefighters responded to a reported truck fire on Merrick Road near Charles Street.  First Assistant Chief Nick Pearsall arrived and immediately raised the alarm to a general alarm as huge flames and heavy smoke billowed from the Westbury Cardboard Company garbage truck.  Chief Pearsall ordered the driver to dump his load of burning cardboard into the roadway so it could be extinguished.  As only a portion of the burning debris was dumped into the street because of a mechanical problem with the truck, additional cardboard remained burning in the vehicle.  Lynbrook Hose Company was first on the scene and stretched its first line to fight the fire.  With the arrival of other fire units additional lines were stretched from Hose Company to fight the fire in the street and in the truck.  Truck Company members helped with the overhaul of the piles of cardboard as did the Village of Lynbrook DPW who sent a bulldozer to get into the burning pile of cardboard in the street.  Merrick Road was closed to traffic in both direction for a few hours.