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Ridgefield Park Fire Department
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Children Tossed From Fire Escape Into Hackensack Heroes' Arms
Hackensack firefighters caught two children tossed to them by their parents during an overnight apartment building blaze. The city's bravest arrived at the four-story brick building on Prospect Avenue shortly after 12:30 a.m. Monday, Dec. 26, to find several residents on the fire escapes trying to flee the second-floor blaze. Other children, as well as adults, were rescued safely after two youngsters were dropped to the firefighters from the escapes. No injuries were reported, fire officials said. Several tenants were displaced, however, and went to stay with relatives. The Red Cross ass…
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This Was Literally A Dumpster Fire
An afternoon Dumpster fire in the garbage room of a Bogota apartment complex sent smoke up to the third and fourth floors and out the roof, firefighters said. Bogota firefighters saw the smoke as they arrived at the Atwater Luxury Apartments along the Hackensack River off West Fort Lee Road around 2 p.m. They were joined at the two-alarm blaze by their firefighting colleagues from Ridgefield Park, Hackensack and Teaneck. They contained the fire within minutes and continued dousing it after rolling the trash bin into the parking lot. The fire sent smoke through the Atwater Apartments b…
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Jeep Hits Pole, Bursts Into Flames In Ridgefield Park
PHOTOS: A Jeep struck a pole and caught fire overnight in Ridgefield Park. The driver quickly got out and wasn't seriously injured in the crash on Teaneck Road near Barnes Drive around 3:30 a.m. Friday, responders said. Ridgefield Park firefighters doused the blaze within minutes. Flames singed the pole and part of a resident's lawn. A PSE&G crew was summoned for repairs. Flames singed the pole and a resident's lawn.DAILY VOICE Ridgefield Park firefighters doused the blaze within minutes.DAILY VOICE AftermathDAILY VOICE
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Multi-Vehicle Crash Closes Route 80
A multi-vehicle crash involving a jackknifed tractor-trailer backed up westbound Route 80 in Bergen County for miles Tuesday afternoon. There was no immediate word on injuries following the crash at mile marker 67.7 in the local lanes approaching Hackensack around 2:30 p.m. Ridgefield Park firefighters extricated an occupant. The view from the Teaneck Road bridge.Charisse Viscomi Santos for DAILY VOICE
Police & Fire
Suicide Try: Man Found In Hackensack River Jumped From Route 46 Bridge, Little Ferry Police Say
UPDATE: A 47-year-old Palisades Park man pulled from the Hackensack River in Little Ferry Wednesday morning had jumped from the nearby Route 46 bridge moments earlier in an attempted suicide, authorities said. "He's expected to live," Detective Lt. Ronald Klein Jr. said. "He's just a little out of it." Two workers in a Ridgefield Park warehouse spotted the man, who was wearing a t-shirt, underwear, socks and sneakers, Klein said. He wasn't carrying any ID, the lieutenant said. A Ridgefield Park Fire Department boat pulled the man toward the shore at Gates Road, Klein said. Little F…
Police & Fire
Fire Ravages Clutter-Filled Teaneck Home
Flames roared through the upper-floor windows of a Teaneck home that responders said was filled with clutter. No injuries were reported in the two-alarm Beverly Road blaze, which broke out around 10:30 p.m. Friday amid what responders said were hoarding conditions. Hackensack and Englewood firefighters joined their Teaneck colleagues at the scene, while those from Bergenfield, Bogota and Ridgefield Park covered the township. No immediate official cause had been disclosed.
Police & Fire
Update
: Aid Arranged For Fort Lee Fire Victims, Police Say Blaze Didn't Seem Suspicious
UPDATE: A fire that began in a crawl space and eventually destroyed a Fort Lee apartment building Thursday night didn’t claim any lives, produced three minor injuries and didn’t appear suspicious, authorities announced. Several measures were being taken to assist the victims, they said. “The Red Cross, New Jersey State Police Office of Emergency Management and Fort Lee Office of Emergency Management are working together with other borough departments to provide assistance for the displaced residents,” Police Capt. Matthew Hintze said late Friday afternoon. The borough established an offici…
Police & Fire
Bogota Car Fire Doused
No one was hurt in a car fire in Bogota late Friday, authorities said. Police and firefighters from Bogota and Ridgefield Park responded to the 11:45 p.m. fire on Palisade Avenue at Route 80, Police Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. Bogota firefighters quickly doused the blaze.
Police & Fire
Funeral Set For Bergen WWII Vet, Longtime Firefighter Al Knaub
A funeral Mass will be held this weekend for one of Bergen County's last World War II veterans, Albert S. Knaub, a 65-year member of the Ridgefield Park Fire Department who was recalled with great fondness and respect during the village's Fourth of July parade. "There aren’t enough great things to say" about "Al" Knaub, 90, said firefighter Eamonn Radburn. Like many others, Radburn called the retired businessman and co-founder of the Ridgefield Park Lions Club "an amazing man." Knaub, a former chief who was memorialized by Engine Co #4 during the village's ren…
Police & Fire
Bergen County Candle Factory Damaged In Fire
A fire at Ridgefield Park's Star Candle Company on Industrial Avenue broke out at approximately 2 a.m. Monday. No injuries were reported in the two-alarm fire, which was under control by firefighters by 3:30 a.m., Ridgefield Park Fire Chief Jim Vandertulip told Daily Voice. Most of the damage was to debris in the rear and to the building's solar system, the chief said. Responding agencies included Ridgefield Park, Bogota, Little Ferry, Hackensack and Teaneck.
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Bodies Of Elderly Teaneck Couple Found In Wreckage Of Furious House Fire
TEANECK, N.J. -- Authorities Sunday afternoon found the bodies of an elderly Teaneck couple killed when a fire roared through their home hours earlier, multiple law enforcement sources told Daily Voice. Gerald and Rosanne Ryan, both 81, were trapped by flames that blew through the 2½-story house on Sherman Avenue just after 6:35 a.m. Excavators had to shore up what was left of the home before being able to comb through the wreckage for their remains. The family of five next door escaped uninjured but flames blew over into their house, destroying nearly all of their belongings. The Teaneck …
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