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Sgt. Stephen Morena and Officer Aundra Ellington quickly gathered the woman – who, it turns out, had an oxygen tank that could have exploded before long – after the blaze broke out in the brick building at 34 State Street shortly before 8:30 p.m. Monday.
Morena and Ellington carried the woman to the second floor and handed her over to members of the Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Acting Teaneck Police Chief Andrew McGurr said.
They took her to Holy Name Medical Center for treatment of smoke inhalation, the chief said.
Teaneck Fire Chief Joseph Berchtold said township firefighters responded with three engines and a ladder.
They contained the fire to the apartment, had it under control in well under an hour and determined that the cause was electrical, the fire chief said.
Mutual aid at the scene or in coverage was provided by, among others, firefighters from Englewood and Hackensack and Bergenfield, Bogota and Ridgefield Park, Berchtold said.
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