Crime & Safety

Youths Rescued at Bethpage State Park

3 hospitalized after reports of intoxication.

Three youths were hospitalized Sunday after police and fire units rescued them at Bethpage State Park.

Nassau County police and fire units from Bethpage, Plainview and other departments responded to reports that several youths were intoxicated and possibly unconscious in the woods.

All were eventually found after rescuers from police aviation units, and fire fighters using four-wheel drive vehicles, mountain bikes and quads searched the woods for more than an hour. 

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There was no immediate word on the condition of the youths.


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