According to the Center Moriches Fire Department, at 10 a.m., Center Moriches and Eastport firefighters were requested to assist the East Moriches Fire Department, who responded to a stranded duck hunter in Moriches Bay, off the end of Bay Avenue.

Emergency units arrived and found a duck blind had pulled away from its mooring along shore and drifted a few 100 yards into the Moriches Bay with one person on board, the fire department said.