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Euclid Lodge #136

Police & Fire
TRIBUTE: Hasbrouck Heights Saddened By News Of Respected Career Firefighter's Death TRIBUTE: Hasbrouck Heights Saddened By News Of Respected Career Firefighter's Death
Tribute: Hasbrouck Heights Saddened By News Of Respected Career Firefighter's Death Hasbrouck Heights firefighters who’d just been through a harrowing experience when four people died in a plane crash in a borough backyard were reviewing the event at the Municipal Building the next night when they smelled smoke. Those downstairs got the fire trucks out while those who remained upstairs “looked out the “looked out the window to see flames coming from the Council Chamber windows,” said retired Fire Chief Harry Maisch. "One thing about firefighters is that when there is a fire, everyone gets into mode and is on the same wavelength,” Maisch once said. “We are there to work tog…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
TRIBUTE: Loss Of Popular WWII Vet Joseph Brammer, 94, Felt Far And Wide TRIBUTE: Loss Of Popular WWII Vet Joseph Brammer, 94, Felt Far And Wide
Tribute: Loss Of Popular WWII Vet Joseph Brammer, 94, Felt Far And Wide Some legends make their names in particular towns. Not Joseph Brammer, one of the last of our country’s "greatest generation" of World War II veterans. Brammer death Monday at 94 was felt beyond his native Hackensack, where "Lucky," as they called him, operated Brammer Construction for many years. It was felt at American Legion Post #876 in River Edge, where the decorated Navy veteran of World War ll was an ambitious poppy seller and was awarded and named poppy chairman, surgeon and quartermaster. Likewise, it was felt at American Legion Post #170 in Rochelle Park. It extended much furth…

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by Jerry DeMarco