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Firefighters Battle Frigid Temps To Douse Ridgefield Blaze Firefighters Battle Frigid Temps To Douse Ridgefield Blaze
Firefighters Battle Frigid Temps To Douse Ridgefield Blaze Ridgefield firefighters conquered frigid temperatures to quickly snuff a weekend blaze. The two-alarm electrical fire ignited in an attic vent at the single-family Shaler Boulevard home at Lancaster Road shortly before 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20, responders said. "They made a great stop," a mutual aid provider said. "It could have been a lot worse, but because of their quick response they were able to knock it down quick." Mutual aid responders included firefighters from Cliffside Park, Fairview, Leonia and Palisades Park, as well as borough police and EMS. No injuries were reported. Jo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Hardyston Church Blaze Was Contained Thanks To Closed Door, Authorities Say Hardyston Church Blaze Was Contained Thanks To Closed Door, Authorities Say
Hardyston Church Blaze Was Contained Thanks To Closed Door, Authorities Say A closed office door at a Hardyston church is to thank for the minimal damage sustained in a fire that otherwise could've been much worse, officials said. Fire crews responded to Christian Faith Fellowship Church on Route 94 after alarms sounded in the office around 6:30 p.m. Monday, NJHerald reports. Fortunately, the doors to the church’s office were closed, proving to be a critical factor in keeping it contained to the room and a small carpeted area outside. The Sussex County Fire Marshal’s Office and fire crews from Sparta, Hamburg, Franklin, McAfee, and Ogdensburg were called to assist…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Burned Firefighter Hospitalized In Newark Blaze Burned Firefighter Hospitalized In Newark Blaze
Burned Firefighter Hospitalized In Newark Blaze A firefighter was hospitalized with burns while battling a nighttime Newark blaze that damaged two homes. He was taken to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston Thursday night with wounds that weren’t considered life-threatening, fellow firefighters said. Responders found heavy flames between a pair of 2 ½-story wood-frame homes in the 200 block of North Street, one of which was vacant, shortly before 9:30p.m. The fire extended into the basement and the upper floors and cockloft of one of the homes, they said. Firefighters got the blaze under control in about an hour. The Red Cross te…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
TRAGEDY: Beloved Bloomfield Landlord Spent 89th Birthday Watching Building Burn TRAGEDY: Beloved Bloomfield Landlord Spent 89th Birthday Watching Building Burn
Tragedy: Beloved Bloomfield Landlord Spent 89th Birthday Watching Building Burn Nick Zois spent the better part of the last 60 years readying 55 Washington St. in Bloomfield for new tenants. Many business owners credit Zois, the owner of local commercial icon Roxy Florist, for making their business dreams come true. But on the morning of his 89th birthday, Zois watched helplessly as his building burned. "He's not your everyday landlord," said Jacqueline Apicella De Dios, who currently works in Montclair but worked on the second floor of the building at Bloomfield Center Alliance for many years. "He's looking to better the community and bring in business that will ma…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Authorities Try To ID Victim In Fiery Overnight Route 287 Crash In Mahwah Authorities Try To ID Victim In Fiery Overnight Route 287 Crash In Mahwah
Authorities Try To ID Victim In Fiery Overnight Route 287 Crash In Mahwah MAHWAH, N.J. -- One person was killed when a Jeep plowed into a parked tractor-trailer overnight Sunday on Route 287 in Mahwah near the New York State line, authorities said. Authorities were trying to identify the victim, who was pronounced dead at the scene after the fiery 2:30 a.m. crash on the northbound highway melted even the license plates of the Cherokee, which struck a parked rig hauling cases of water. Mahwah Fire Companies 1, 2 and 4 responded and extinguished the flames. Franklin Lakes provided mutual aid. New Jersey State Police were investigating.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
VIDEO: Child May Have Ignited Fire That Ravaged Fairview Home VIDEO: Child May Have Ignited Fire That Ravaged Fairview Home
Video: Child May Have Ignited Fire That Ravaged Fairview Home FAIRVIEW, N.J. -- (UPDATE) A child may have accidentally ignited a fire that blew through the roof of a two-family Fairview house, investigators unofficially said Saturday. Everyone got out safely from the two-alarm blaze on Kennedy Drive, which responders said broke out in the rear of the upstairs apartment around 7 p.m. Friday. No one was injured. Borough firefighters were pulled from the roof just before it caved in. They were aided by their colleagues from Cliffside Park, who sent a FAST team, as well as from Edgewater (engine), Palisades Park (ladder truck) and Ridgefield (engine). …

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by Jerry DeMarco