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Brush Fire Ravages 19 Acres On Palisades: Firefighters Battle Blaze Amid Statewide Restrictions
Firefighters are battling a 19-acre brush fire that erupted Thursday night, Nov. 7, on the cliffs of the Palisades Interstate Park. Visible from across the Hudson River, the blaze has turned the scenic cliffs into an intense battle zone, with flames licking at the steep, rocky terrain and sending plumes of smoke billowing into the evening sky. The fire, fueled by dry brush and challenging cliffside conditions, remains only 30% contained as of Friday morning, according to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service. Crews from Fort Lee, Englewood, Ridgefield, Leonia, Edgewater, and more have jo…
Police & Fire
Photos Show Tanker Trunk Hauling 8,500 Gallons Of Gas Crush 2 Cars In NJ, 5 Hospitalized
Police have provided an update and firefighters have shared photos of the crash involving a tanker truck and two passenger vehicles Wednesday, Oct. 2 in Bernardsville. One person was airlifted and four people were taken by ground to various hospitals after the crash with a 2018 Kenworth tractor-trailer loaded with 8,500 gallons of gasoline on Anderson Hill Road just north of Seney Drive around 8:20 a.m., Bernardsville police said. Wednesday morning 29 Fire along with @peapackgladstonefd were requested into Bernardsville for the fuel tanker on top of... Posted by Far Hills-Bedminster Fir…
Police & Fire
White Powder In Suspicious Envelope Brings HazMat Team To Bergen County Plaza
A white powder in a suspicious envelope that brought a Hazmat team to a Bergen County administrative building in Hackensack turned out to be rather innocuous after all. Firefighters were called to 1 Bergen County Plaza around 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 24, where they were told a letter containing some type of white powder had been delivered, they said. Firefighters isolated several employees who potentially were exposed and awaited the arrival of a Hazmat team. The team examined the envelope and tested its contents, which turned out to be "nothing hazardous," firefighters said. Hac…
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Two Escape, Two Dead In Paterson Fire
Two people were killed in a Paterson fire early Friday, Sept. 20, authorities said. While a 28-year-old and 69-year-old man were able to escape, the bodies of two other victims were found in the home at 71 North 7th Street just after 2:30 a.m., Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes, Paterson Police Department Officer In Charge Isa Abbassi, and Paterson Fire Chief Alex Alicea said. Arriving firefighters found heavy flames on the first and second floors of a wood-frame home, and spreading, the Paterson Fire Department said. Firefighters removed one victim and one animal, …
News
2-Alarm Fire Destroys Ridgewood Home
A Ridgewood home was deemed uninhabitable by a fire that broke out Tuesday morning, Sept. 10, incident reporter Boyd A. Loving said. Photos from the scene shared by Loving show flames shooting through the roof of the house on the 300 block of Beveridge Road around 8:45 a.m. Photo(s) of the day, 09/10/2024: A single family home located in the 300 block of Beveridge Road, Ridgewood was... Posted by Boyd A. Loving on Tuesday, September 10, 2024 Photo(s) of the day, 09/10/2024: A single family home located in the 300 block of Beveridge Road, Ridgewood was... Posted by Boyd A…
Police & Fire
Four Victims Hospitalized In Emerson Rollover Crash (
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Four people were hospitalized in a rollover crash Tuesday, Sept. 3 in Emerson, according to incident reporter Boyd A. Loving. A white SUV was heading west on Old Hook Road when it broadsided a blue SUV leaving a nearby medical building in the late morning hours, Loving said. Photo(s) of the day, 09/03/2024: Four (4) ambulances, two (2) paramedic vehicles, and two (2) fire department heavy... Posted by Boyd A. Loving on Tuesday, September 3, 2024 The blue SUV overturned and the occupants were extricated by firefighters using the Jaws of Life. All four victims of the crash were tak…
News
NJ Transit, Amtrak Service Resumes After Power Outage, Brush Fire
Service to NJ Transit and Amtrak trains was disrupted for the second time this week on Thursday, June 20 due to both power issues and brush fires along the NJ Turnpike, officials said. Amtrak service between Philadelphia and New Haven had been suspended while NJ Transit service in and out of NY Penn Station was also suspended, due to power issues on the Amtrak line, NJ Transit said. Service had resumed as of 10 p.m. with serious delays. A brush fire in Secaucus was compounding the issue as it was impacting wire repairs. NJ Transit service was also disrupted Tuesday morning, June 18, leavin…
Police & Fire
Update
: 2 Girls Airlifted After Tree Limb Smashes Through Tour Bus At NJ/NY State Line
𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: Two teens were airlifted to New Jersey trauma centers after a charter bus filled with girls from a Brooklyn yeshiva crashed into a tree Tuesday afternoon barely a quarter mile from the New York State line. West Milford firefighters extricated the two critically injured victims following the 3:16 p.m. June 4 crash on East Shore Road alongside Greenwood Lake in Hewitt, responders at the scene told Daily Voice. Greenwood Lake Airport (NJ), five miles down the road, was used as the medevac landing zone, they said. One girl was flown to the trauma center at Hackensack University Me…
Police & Fire
Handcuffed Woman, 21, Rescued By Franklin Lakes Firefighters
"Kids playing around" brought firefighters to a Franklin Lakes home where a 21-year-old woman was unable to free herself from a pair of handcuffs. Franklin Lakes firefighters and police responded to the $2 million home off Pulis Avenue shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday, May 18, Police Capt. Robert Grassi said. The borough's bravest cut off the bracelets without injury to the woman, the captain said.
Police & Fire
Update
: Vicious Blaze Kills Dog, Injures Firefighters In Wayne
A vicious fire consumed a Wayne home and sent at least two firefighters to the hospital, responders at the scene said. One reportedly complained of chest pains and the other suffered a possible broken leg in the Lenox Road fire, which began on the porch of the single-family home around 10 p.m. Saturday, May 4, and quickly spread. A family dog was killed in the blaze, which ignited when the residents weren't home. Aftermath CONTRIBUTED Flames ended up blowing through the roof of the 2½-story, wood-frame home, as firefighters mounted an exterior attack. The two-alarmer was knocked down …
Lifestyle
Who Are New Jersey's Sexiest Civil Servants? Here's What New Poll Says
Ring the alarm! Firefighters may make the calendars and policemen are pretty, but a newly released survey found that New Jersey's sexiest civil servants are neither of the two. According to DatingNews, the hottest civil servants in the Garden State are customs and border protections officers. DatingNews released the new tally after interviewing 3,000 singles to uncover which uniformed pros, though they omitted out the usual suspects, including firefighters, police officers, and members of the military. "In the urban landscape, there's an undeniable physical magnetism that surrounds those …
Police & Fire
Update
: No Charges For Troubled Driver Who Claimed Child Was In Burning Car, Fair Lawn PD Says
An emotionally disturbed woman who told Fair Lawn police that a child was inside her burning car won't be criminally charged, authorities said. Officers were looking for an erratically-driven Dodge Neon when they spotted it speeding down a resident's driveway into a heavily wooded area off Saddle River Road around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 1. The sedan got stuck on a large mulch pile, after which the driver began redlining the engine in a futile attempt to free it, a witness said."It sounded like someone was running a wood chipper," the witness said. The hot exhaust system ignit…
Police & Fire
Sedan Slides Off Rain-Slicked Route 17
A 22-year-old driver escaped injury when his sedan ran off Route 17 and into the woods during a rainstorm, authorities said. The Bronx motorist was headed south when his Honda Civic slid off the road at the Hollywood Avenue exit in Ho-Ho-Kus shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, Police Capt. Greg McBain said. Bad weather conditions were to blame, the captain said. The driver refused further medical attention after being examined at the scene, he said. CONTRIBUTED Firefighters responded along with borough police and EMS. Police, firefighters and EMS responded. CONTRIBUTED
Schools
Traumatized By Break-In, NJ College Student Develops Emergency App
An MBA fellow at Rowan University has designed an app to enhance the security of students at the Glassboro campus. Siena Rampulla was a victim of an off-campus break-in in March 2022, as reported by Daily Voice. Jorge L. Navaheredia, 29, of Sicklerville, had broken into several women's homes including Rampulla's, according to Glassboro police. He was caught hiding under a kitchen sink with panties, police said. A search of the suspect's vehicle turned up additional panties and mail from burglary victims, police said at the time. A pre-trial conference for Navaheredia is set for Feb. …
Police & Fire
Bricks, Concrete Fall From Hawthorne HS Building
Chunks of a Hawthorne High School parapet gave way Tuesday afternoon, raining bricks and concrete that damaged vehicles parked below. There was no immediate answer for what might have caused the chunks to come loose along a 60-foot stretch of the back of the Science Building's façade facing the athletic field on Bamford Avenue on Sept. 12. No work was being done at the time, responders said. The collapsed section of parapet wall pulled a swatch of the frieze down with it. A few vehicles were damaged.Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE Hawthorne HS officials were joined by township polic…
Police & Fire
Hackensack Resident, Cat Flee House Fire
A resident and his cat got out OK before Hackensack firefighters quickly doused a house blaze. No injuries were reported in the fire, which ignited in the ceiling of a second-floor bathroom between the rafters and the third floor of the single-family corner house at Clinton and Clarendon places shortly after 4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 21. Firefighters quickly knocked it down and had it under control in roughly a half hour. Mutual aid responders included firefighters from Englewood, Teaneck, Ridgefield Park and Bogota. The city Building Department, a PSE&G crew and Hackensack University Med…
Police & Fire
Four Firefighters Injured After Blaze Damages Historic Church
Grace Presbyterian Church, a 99-year-old Montclair institution, suffered extensive damage after a three-alarm fire tore the building on Tuesday morning, August 15. Montclair firefighters rushed to Grove Street and Tuxedo Road at 8 a.m. and found the fire reaching from the basement to the roofline at the back of the church, Deputy Chief Robert Duncan said. The roof collapsed about a half hour after the blaze started, according to witnesses on scene. It took multiple hoselines and master streams to bring the fire under control at 11 a.m., Duncan said. Four firefighters suffered minor injurie…
Police & Fire
Everyone OK In Overnight East Rutherford House Fire
Fears of a possibly trapped resident proved unfounded during an overnight house fire in East Rutherford. First-floor residents were vacating the two-family home on Rose Street near Paterson Avenue as first responders arrived at 2:35 a.m., Police Capt. Jeff Yannacone said. A search determined there was no one home upstairs, where the two-alarm kitchen fire originated, he said. Firefighters had the fire doused in under a half hour. No injuries were reported. Mutual aid was provided by firefighters from Carlstadt, Passaic, Rutherford and Wallington. A cause wasn't immediately disclosed…
Police & Fire
'Hearts Are Broken': IDs Of Newark Firefighters Killed In Line Of Duty Released
Augusto Acabou and Wayne Brooks, Jr. will be remembered as heroes. Newark firefighters Augusto "Augie" Acabou, 45, and Wayne Brooks, 49, died battling a massive ship fire at Port Newark on Wednesday, July 5, city officials announced in a Thursday morning, July 6 press conference. They were working out of Engine 16, Newark Fire Chief Rufus Jackson said. "This is a sad day for all of us in Newark," Mayor Ras Baraka said. "Our hearts are broken by the tragedy we experienced last night." At 9:25 p.m. Newark firefighters responded to Corbin Street and Marsh Street on a call of numerous vehic…
Police & Fire
Firefighters Deliver Twin On Garden State Parkway
It's a boy! ...and another boy! Firefighters from Wildwood helped a woman in labor with twins on the Garden State Parkway on Wednesday, June 28. Wildwood Fire Squad Co. 3 was dispatched to a maternity call at a local hotel, as North Wildwood Fire Department Ambulance 2 was dispatched mutual aid as our ambulance on another incident. TEAMWORK AT ITS FINEST! Last night Squad Co. 3 (C Platoon)was dispatched to a maternity at a local hotel. North... Posted by City of Wildwood Fire Department on Thursday, June 29, 2023 Upon arrival of Squad Co. 3 , Capt. Troiano, firefighter Kobierowski, …
Police & Fire
Vehicles Collide At Busy Hackensack Intersection
An SUV and a wagon collided at a busy Hackensack intersection on Friday. No serious injuries were immediately reported in the June 30 late-morning crash involving a Honda CRV and a Volvo wagon at Central Avenue and Union Street. City police and firefighters responded along with an EMS rig from Hackensack Meridian Health. Hackensack Auto Body towed both the Honda, which got the worst of the collision, and the wagon. Hackensack Auto Body towed the vehicles.Paul D. Nickels for DAILY VOICE Firefighters cleaned up a minor fuel spill. City police are investigating. Paul D. Nickels took th…
Police & Fire
Heroes
: Firefighters Team Up To Extricate Trapped Driver In Glen Rock Utility Pole Crash
Firefighters freed a trapped young driver whose SUV slammed into a utility pole and landed on its side late Sunday in Glen Rock. Glen Rock firefighters were assisted by their colleagues from Hawthorne on Harristown Road, across from the Alexander Hamilton Elementary School near Maple Avenue and northbound Route 208, around 11 p.m. June 25. The heroes got the Chevy Trax stabilized, then carefully and safely freed the 22-year-old Wayne driver. She was alert and talking with them before being by the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps to Hackensack University Medical Center. The heroes …
Police & Fire
Paramus House Fire Doused
Firefighters doused a nighttime attic blaze in Paramus. No injuries were reported in the two-alarmer, which ignited in a two-story, wood-frame home on Terhune Avenue, just off Midland Avenue, around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, June 24. Firefighters had it knocked down in under a half hour and under control minutes later. Mutual aid responders included firefighters from Maywood, Rochelle Park, River Edge, Washington Township, Oradell and Fair Lawn.
Police & Fire
Update
: Couple In Classic Car Killed In Fiery Turnpike Crash
UPDATE: Two people were killed when their classic car was rear-ended overnight on the New Jersey Turnpike, authorities confirmed. The man and woman died after the 1950s-era Plymouth was struck by a Jeep Cherokee and both burst into flames near Exit 70B on northbound I-95 around midnight Sunday, June 11, they said. Identification of both of them was pending, New Jersey State Police Sgt. Philip Curry said. Two people in the Jeep sustained minor injuries, the sergeant said. UPDATE: Two people were killed when their classic car was rear-ended overnight on the New Jersey Turnpike, authori…
Police & Fire
Update
: Yet Another Memorial Day Weekend Fire Ravages Upper Saddle River Home
Yet another Memorial Day weekend fire in North Jersey blew through the roof of an Upper Saddle River home. The blaze in the two-story, 4,200-square-foot Carlough Road house near the Rockland County border broke out around 8 p.m. May 27, bringing firefighters from both sides of the state line. They had the fire knocked down and under control in roughly 40 minutes -- but not before it severely damaged multiple floors at one end of the house. Flames blew through the roof of the Carlough Road house near the Rockland County border in Upper Saddle River.Ethan Hayes for DAILY VOICE No injurie…
Police & Fire
One Home Ravaged, Another Severely Damaged By Unforgiving Paterson Fire
Two firefighters were injured and at least two residents required medical attention from a fast-moving blaze Tuesday afternoon that ravaged one Paterson home and severely damaged another. Responders had assistance from neighbors who helped get some of the residents to safety after the fire ignited on the second floor of one of several wood-frame, multi-family homes on Knickerbocker Avenue around 1 p.m. May 16. Flames spread to a neighboring home, but firefighters limited the damage. The three-alarmer was declared under control around 4:45 p.m. A bulldozer and other heavy equipment was br…
Police & Fire
'57 Chevy Among Antique Vehicles Destroyed In Pre-Dawn Garfield Garage Fire: Responders
A vicious pre-dawn Bergen County garage fire exacted a steep sentimental price. THE quintessential American greaser car -- a 1957 Bel Air -- was destroyed along with another antique Chevy and a motorcycle in the overnight fire in Garfield, responders said. The fire broke out on the second floor of the detached Cedar Street garage off Belmont Avenue shortly after 2 a.m. Monday, May 1. The fire broke out on the second floor of the Cedar Street garage in Garfield shortly after 2 a.m. Monday, May 1.Damien Danis for DAILY VOICE Firefighters had it knocked down in just under a half hour and …
Police & Fire
Firefighters Douse Attic Blaze In Ramsey
Firefighters doused an attic blaze at a Ramsey home early Thursday. No injuries were reported in the two-alarmer, which ignited at a home on narrow Lakeview Terrace just off Lake Street around 6:40 a.m. April 27. Firefighters had it quickly extinguished and under control by 7:30 a.m., sparing further fire damage. Mutual aid responders who reportedly were at the scene or in coverage included firefighters from Allendale, Mahwah and Wyckoff, along with members of Ramsey Rescue and borough police. Firefighters had the blaze on Lakeview Terrace in Ramsey quickly under control.RAMSEY FD
News
Fire In Wyckoff Shopping Center Pizzeria Quickly Doused
Firefighters made quick work of a late-night blaze at a Wyckoff shopping center pizzeria. A fire alarm brought responders to Pizzeria Mandara in the Boulder Run shopping center off Franklin and Godwin avenues as snow continued to fall shortly before midnight Monday, Feb. 27. Wyckoff firefighters doused the flames in minutes. Waldwick firefighters assisted. No severe damage or injuries were immediately reported. The Waldwick Fire Department took the photos. Snow fell as responders answered the call at Pizzeria Mandara in the Boulder Run shopping center, 319 Franklin Ave, Wyckoff.WAL…
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Firefighters Free Three In Route 23 Head-On Crash Involving Ambulance
Wayne firefighters extricated three occupants following a multi-vehicle head-on crash involving a private ambulance at a Route 23 intersection. No serious injuries were reported in the Feb. 20 mid-morning collision on the northbound highway at the light just past Waynechester Plaza, which sent four occupants in all to the hospital. Firefighters said they used both battery-powered and hydraulic tools to free the patients as traffic kept stretching further in either direction. Wayne police and members of the Memorial First Aid Squad assisted with patient care and support, the smoke eaters sa…
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House Fire Doused In Rutherford
Firefighters made quick work of a house blaze in Rutherford. The fire broke out shortly before 9:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 16, on the second floor of the Vanderburgh Avenue home at the corner of Clark Avenue. Work apparently was being done at the home, responders said. Firefighters made quick work of the blaze on Vanderburgh Avenue in Rutherford.Jo Fehl Firefighters had the bulk of the blaze knocked down in under 20 minutes. The fire was officially declared under control soon after. No injuries were reported. At the scene of the Jan. 16 blaze on Vanderburgh Avenue in Rutherford.Jo Feh…
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