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Fire Breaks Out As Workers Demolish Former Sony Building In Park Ridge Fire Breaks Out As Workers Demolish Former Sony Building In Park Ridge
Fire Breaks Out As Workers Demolish Former Sony Building In Park Ridge UPDATE: Firefighters doused a blaze Saturday afternoon that they said began in an HVAC unit atop the former Sony building near the Rockland border in Park Ridge. The fire spread from one of three rooftop mechanical pods to the floor below in the four-story building, which a demolition crew is tearing down to make way for hundreds of new apartments on the 30-acre former electronic giant's campus just off the Garden State Parkway. A worker whom Park Ridge Fire Chief Thomas Lepore spotted on the roof after arriving at the 1:45 p.m. blaze "made his way through an unaffected area of the buildin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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‘I Have A Lot To Live For’: Bergen Navy Veteran Firefighter Needs Kidney ‘I Have A Lot To Live For’: Bergen Navy Veteran Firefighter Needs Kidney
‘I Have A Lot To Live For’: Bergen Navy Veteran Firefighter Needs Kidney Firefighters are quick to rescue those in need, but right now one of Park Ridge’s bravest could use some help. Park Ridge Firefighter Mark "Cookey" Eisen, 63, was recently placed on the National Kidney Registry after diabetes caused late-stage kidney failure. He’s scheduled to begin dialysis in 2021 but hopes to find him a kidney before then. A veteran of seven years with the U.S. Navy, Eisen has been a borough firefighter for nearly three decades. He's considered “part of the fabric” of the borough, his company wrote in a Facebook post. Eisen has served with the Park Ridge Elks, American…

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by Jerry DeMarco