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Disaster medical teams aiding LI patients

(L-R) In the command center tent, Jeff Brown,

Photo credit: Newsday / Karen Wiles Stabile | (L-R) In the command center tent, Jeff Brown, operations section chief and Mark Gray, commander of the team from Washington, at work. (Nov. 6, 2012)

At one point Nathaniel Moore began singing.

That was remarkable because, at the time, the 2-year-old from Freeport was getting stitches to close a deep cut on his wrist he got running into a glass door.

What was also remarkable was that Dr. Laura Fife, an emergency medicine doctor from Seattle, was sewing him up Thursday on a cot inside a MASH-like tent outside South Nassau Communities...

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