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Stubborn Kearny Chlorine Fire Under Control Stubborn Kearny Chlorine Fire Under Control
Stubborn Kearny Chlorine Fire Under Control Firefighters from New York, Jersey City, Newark and several other towns helped contain a blaze at a Kearny factory that went to four alarms and spewed a noxious plume of smoke across a broad swath of Hudson County.  The fire, at the Alden Leeds plant on Jacobus Avenue in industrial South Kearny, started at around 10 p.m. Friday and had climbed to four alarms by midnight before firefighters, including crews in fire boats, were able to bring the fire under control Saturday morning.  Alden Leeds manufactures pool cleaning products made of chlorine, complicating efforts to fight the f…

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by Paul Milo
News
Kearny Chlorine Plant Fire Shuts Skyway, Residents Told To Stay Indoors Kearny Chlorine Plant Fire Shuts Skyway, Residents Told To Stay Indoors
Kearny Chlorine Plant Fire Shuts Skyway, Residents Told To Stay Indoors UPDATE: The fire was brought under control Saturday morning after reaching four alarms.  The Pulaski Skyway in Kearny was closed in both directions after a manufacturing  plant went up in flames, stranding drivers on the roadway Friday night. The blaze, which hit at least three alarms overnight, broke out around 10 p.m. at the Alden Leeds plant, located on Jacobus Avenue under the skyway. The company makes chlorinated tablets and other chemical treatments for swimming pools.  Residents in Hudson County, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island were urged to shut their windows d…

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by Paul Milo & Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
HazMat Response To Odor At Hawthorne Apartments: Contractor Chemicals HazMat Response To Odor At Hawthorne Apartments: Contractor Chemicals
HazMat Response To Odor At Hawthorne Apartments: Contractor Chemicals HAWTHORNE, N.J. -- Two residents of a Hawthorne apartment building refused hospitalization Saturday morning after chemicals used by a contractor irritated them. Hawthorne police, firefighters and EMS responded along with a Passaic County hazardous materials team to several 911 calls of an irritating odor at the Mill View Lofts building on Westervelt Avenue. The odor was traced to a contractor's use of a chemical product that created combustible fumes. Hawthorne EMS evaluated two residents who said they felt ill, but both refused ambulance transportation to a local hospital.  Firefighters …

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by Jerry DeMarco