http://www2.timesreview.com/ST/ Serving Long Island's North Fork since 1857 en-us http://www2.timesreview.com/ST/stories/T082108_fire_jal Fire consumed two homes at 617 and 618 Second Street in Greenport Tuesday evening, leaving at least 10 people homeless. There were no serious injuries, though three people, including two firefighters were transported to Eastern Long Island Hospital with minor injuries.It took firefighters from the Greenport Fire Department, with assistance from the East Marion, Orient, Southold, Cutchogue and Mattituck fire departments three hours and 15 minutes to bring the fires under control.  Greenport was dispatched to the scene at  5:34 p.m., according to a press release issued by the department. Firefighters arrived to find  two homes on fire. Both houses, owned by the North Fork Housing Alliance, had vinyl siding, resulting in not only a rapid spread of the fire, but toxic fumes being released into the air on a street crowded with concerned relatives, friends and neighbors, according to a firefighter who declined to give his name.With no working fire hydrants on the Second Street block between Broad and Webb streets, hoses had to be connected on both of those streets and even as far as First Street.“I hope you’ll highlight no hydrants on our block,” a neighbor said.Mary Saetta, whose home is immediately north of the two destroyed homes said she was in her kitchen baking when her daughter alerted her to a fire on the porch next door at 617 Second St. She used a garden hose to try to fight the blaze while neighbor Ronnie Pringle Jr., who lives across the street from the two homes, called 911.  By the time firefighters arrived, flames had already jumped to the home at 618 Second St.Eugene Allen was at work on a nearby construction site for Ratsey Construction when he saw smoke and followed it, only to discover his home at 618 Second St. was ablaze. “Thank God my kids weren’t in there,” he said. He lived on the ground floor with his wife and two children; his in-laws, Robert and Louise Reed lived on the second floor. Ms. Reed was in the house, babysitting for an 8-month-old grandchild and quickly got out, Mr. Allen said.“Work hard and you lose it all in one day,” he said, as he watched firefighters try to control the blaze. His wife and children were at the dentist at the time the fire broke out, he said.“God works in mysterious ways,” he said. “I know I can get material things back,” Mr. Allen said. But he lost wedding pictures and mementoes he had of relative, Kyle Rose, who drowned in a Greenport swimming pool last summer.Charles Anthony Smith was coming home from a visit to his mom and stopped to run some errands “when a friend told me my house was on fire.” He lived at 220 Second St. A firefighter was able to recover a cash box from his bedroom that contained $5,000, he said.“Thank God I’m alive,” he said. “I’ve just got to start over, that’s all.”Others who lived in the two homes were identified by neighbors as Laverne Allen, Louise King Sutton and Walter Chance. Greenport building inspector Eileen Wingate was on the scene and returned to her office to issue a letter condemning the two buildings so that police would have the authorization to block anyone from entering the premises and looting, she said.Mr. Smith said he was given a card enabling him to stay at Townsend Manor Tuesday night, but that he would likely go to his parents’ home.Mr. Chance said he has a place to stay for a couple of weeks but then doesn’t know where he’ll go.At about 6:30 p.m. Greenport Electric Department workers disconnected power on the block and neighbors said they were told it would be out for at least three hours. By 7:30 p.m. firefighters appeared to be getting the blaze under control, but were expected to be at the site dealing with embers for several hours Tuesday night.Neighbor Claudia Helinski, owner of Salamander’s Cafe on First Street, said she would be taking up a collection to help those who lost everything in the fire.“They’re in shock,” Ms. Helinski said.The Suffolk County Arson Squad is investigating the cause of the fire, Greenport Chief Clifford Harris said in a statement.Michelle Myers contributed to the reporting of this story.