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Firefighters Quickly Douse Rapidly Spreading Fair Lawn House Fire Firefighters Quickly Douse Rapidly Spreading Fair Lawn House Fire
Firefighters Quickly Douse Rapidly Spreading Fair Lawn House Fire 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: Fair Lawn firefighters quickly doused a blaze that began in a basement and spread through a local home. “Basement fires can be extremely dangerous to our crews. There was a lot of smoke in the basement, making locating the fire very difficult,” Fair Lawn Fire Chief Pete Yuskaitis said after the 31st Street blaze was doused early Monday evening. “The crews did a great job fighting the heat to get to the fire and extinguish it,” the chief said. The call to the two-story home on 31st Street came in at 6:38 p.m. May 6, Yuskaitis said. The fire quickly escalated to a second alarm, brin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Fair Lawn Rescue Squad Extricates Trapped Senior Van Driver Following Crash Fair Lawn Rescue Squad Extricates Trapped Senior Van Driver Following Crash
Fair Lawn Rescue Squad Extricates Trapped Senior Van Driver Following Crash  A senior minivan driver was hospitalized after firefighters extricated him following a morning crash Tuesday in Fair Lawn. Members of the Fair Lawn Rescue Squad freed the driver following a collision with a Toyota Camry that knocked his Chrysler Town & Country into a utility pole at the intersection of Hartley Place and Rosalie Street around 7:30 a.m. Nov. 28. A Bergen County EMS ambulance took him to a local hospital with injuries that didn't appear life-threatening. Boyd A. Loving BDJ Towing removed both vehicles. Boyd A. Loving Members of Fair Lawn Fire Co. 3 also responded w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Morning Fire Clears Glen Rock Grammar School Morning Fire Clears Glen Rock Grammar School
Morning Fire Clears Glen Rock Grammar School Early arrival students were escorted from the Alexander Hamilton School in Glen Rock on Wednesday after a small fire ignited in a hallway light fixture. Everything went smoothly as the youngsters were temporarily brought from the K-5 school on Harristown Road to the nearby Academy of Our Lady shortly after 8:30 a.m. Oct. 18. Police officers who arrived first immediately doused the fire with extinguishers, Glen Rock Police Lt. Frank Riggio said. No injuries were reported, the lieutenant said.  The cause is being investigated by fire officials and Glen Rock police detectives, he said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Driver Hospitalized In Route 208 Crash Driver Hospitalized In Route 208 Crash
Driver Hospitalized In Route 208 Crash A driver was hospitalized with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening after rolling a sedan Wednesday afternoon on Route 208 in Fair Lawn. The northbound highway was jammed after the Subaru Legacy landed on its driver's side under the Fair Lawn Avenue overpass shortly after 3 p.m. July 26. Five Star Towing righted and removed the vehicle. Fair Lawn police, firefighters, EMS workers and members of the Rescue Squad responded. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this report. Five Star Towing righted and removed the vehicle.Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE

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by Jerry DeMarco
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House Fire Doused In Fair Lawn House Fire Doused In Fair Lawn
House Fire Doused In Fair Lawn Firefighters in Fair Lawn quickly doused a destructive house blaze before noon on Wednesday. No injuries were reported in the Kipp Street fire, which Fair Lawn Fire Chief Jacob Mamo said broke out in the kitchen of a 1½-story home just off Plaza Road near the Berdan Avenue exit off northbound Route 208 shortly after 10:30 a.m. June 21. Firefighters had the two-alarm blaze knocked in minutes, then checked for any extension to the attic. The home nonetheless sustained significant damage. Firefighters had the two-alarm blaze on Kipp Street knocked in minutes, then checked for any extensi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Overnight Fire In Fair Lawn Serves As Reminder About Chimney Safety Overnight Fire In Fair Lawn Serves As Reminder About Chimney Safety
Overnight Fire In Fair Lawn Serves As Reminder About Chimney Safety A pre-dawn chimney fire doused by Fair Lawn's bravest serves as a critical public safety reminder. Fire from a chimney extended into the walls on the first floor of the Saddle River Road home shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday, March 26, Fire Chief Jake Mamo said. Mamo, who transmitted a general alarm, said firefighters quickly knocked down the blaze and opened the walls to check for any extension. No injuries were reported. The Fair Lawn Rescue Squad, Volunteer Ambulance Corps and Police Department all assisted, the chief said. Mutual aid for coverage was provided by Elmwood Park and Saddle Br…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Convertible Coupe Slams Into Utility Pole In Fair Lawn Convertible Coupe Slams Into Utility Pole In Fair Lawn
Convertible Coupe Slams Into Utility Pole In Fair Lawn A canary yellow BMW convertible with an Air Jordan logo slammed into a utility pole in Fair Lawn, sending a senior female passenger to the hospital. She and her son told police their M3 had been sideswiped by another car on narrow River Road, across from Tanis Concrete in Fair Lawn shortly after 1 p.m. The woman sustained a wrist injury and was taken to a local hospital by a Bergen County Office of Emergency Management ambulance, police said. The driver's mother was hospitalized with a wrist injury following the crash on River Road in Fair Lawn on Thursday, Feb. 23.Boyd A. Loving The h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Driver OK After Sedan Slams Into Tree In Fair Lawn Driver OK After Sedan Slams Into Tree In Fair Lawn
Driver OK After Sedan Slams Into Tree In Fair Lawn A senior driver declined medical attention after her sedan slammed into a tree Monday afternoon in Fair Lawn. Fair Lawn Rescue Squad removed the door to free the driver from her Toyota Camry following the crash on Plaza Road North near Fernwood Drive shortly after 2 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12. The Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance Corps joined borough police and firefighters at the scene. The sedan had to be towed. Fair Lawn Rescue Squad removed the door to free the driver from her Toyota Camry following the crash on Plaza Road North near Fernwood Drive shortly after 2 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12.Boyd…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Firefighter Who Teaches High-Angle Rescue Helps Save Severely Injured Worker In Fair Lawn Tree Firefighter Who Teaches High-Angle Rescue Helps Save Severely Injured Worker In Fair Lawn Tree
Firefighter Who Teaches High-Angle Rescue Helps Save Severely Injured Worker In Fair Lawn Tree A firefighter with just the right experience helped rescue a tree trimmer who was left perilously perched in the air in Fair Lawn after a cut limb from an oak broke his leg, responders said. Firefighters couldn't get to the 42-year-old arborist from Hackensack with an aerial ladder after the mishap left him stranded on an unsteady limb 20 to 30 feet above the backyard of an Ellington Road home shortly before 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 6. They had to use ground ladders and ropes instead. "Coincidentally, while on his way to teach rope rescue for hostage negotiation, off-duty FF Steven Alvarez…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Driver, 87, OK After Sedan Plows Into Fair Lawn Convenience Store (PHOTOS) Driver, 87, OK After Sedan Plows Into Fair Lawn Convenience Store (PHOTOS)
Driver, 87, OK After Sedan Plows Into Fair Lawn Convenience Store (Photos) An 87-year-old driver from Glen Rock escaped injury when her sedan smashed through the front of a Fair Lawn convenience store. No other injuries were reported, either. The Toyota Avalon barreled into the Quick Mart in a mini-shopping center on Broadway when the driver accidentally hit the gas shortly before 10 a.m. Tuesday, Police Sgt. Sean Macys said. Fair Lawn police and firefighters responded to the crash at the Quick Mart on Broadway.Douglas Lee for DAILY VOICE Borough police and firefighters -- including members of the Fair Lawn Rescue Squad -- responded.  A building inspector de…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Rollover Crash Jams Morning Rush At Routes 4, 208 Rollover Crash Jams Morning Rush At Routes 4, 208
Rollover Crash Jams Morning Rush At Routes 4, 208 A rollover crash jammed the eastbound morning rush near the Fair Lawn/Paramus border. A Honda Civic landed on its roof following a collision with a Ford wagon where Route 208 becomes Route 4 near Saddle River Road in Fair Lawn shortly before 7:20 a.m. Thursday. Fair Lawn police and Rescue Squad firefighters responded along with Paramus police and EMS. Both vehicles had to be towed.Boyd A. Loving No serious injuries were reported. Arrow Towing removed the vehicles. No serious injuries were reported.Boyd A. Loving

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Firefighters Douse Fair Lawn House Blaze Firefighters Douse Fair Lawn House Blaze
Firefighters Douse Fair Lawn House Blaze Firefighters quickly stopped a Wednesday afternoon blaze from doing serious damage to the interior of a Fair Lawn home. The two-alarm fire severely damaged the front of the 32nd Street residence just off southbound Route 208. A passerby sustained a minor injury trying to put out the flames shortly after 5:30 p.m., Fire Chief Michael Salvini said. Roughly 40 firefighters quickly converged on the scene, the chief said. Firefighters quickly converged on the 32nd Street home in Fair Lawn.Priscila Krischer / Fair Lawn Fire Department photographer “Our members quickly knocked down the exter…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Pizza Guy Charged With DWI, Reckless Driving In Fair Lawn Rollover Crash Pizza Guy Charged With DWI, Reckless Driving In Fair Lawn Rollover Crash
Pizza Guy Charged With DWI, Reckless Driving In Fair Lawn Rollover Crash A pizza delivery man was drunk when he rolled his SUV in Fair Lawn and had to be extricated by firefighters, authorities said. Fair Lawn Rescue Squad members cut out the windshield to free John Keegan, 59, of Ridgewood, after the vehicle hit a parked car and landed on its side on Broadway at 30th Street Monday evening, March 21, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Members of the Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance Corps checked Keegan out, found him uninjured and turn him over to police, Metzler said. Officers arrested him after Keegan refused to submit to a roadside sobriety test, the sergeant said. T…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Tractor-Trailer Topples Light Pole Outside Glen Rock Supermarket Tractor-Trailer Topples Light Pole Outside Glen Rock Supermarket
Tractor-Trailer Topples Light Pole Outside Glen Rock Supermarket No one was injured when a tractor-trailer took down a light pole and got stuck on a concrete stanchion in the parking lot of a Glen Rock supermarket. Glen Rock firefighters and members of the Fair Lawn Rescue Squad tended to a substantial oil spill from the mishap at the Super Fresh on Lincoln Avenue shortly before 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 9. The driver of the rig from Allentown, PA waited for his company to send a heavy-duty wrecker to remove it. The tractor got lodged on the concrete stanchion at the Super Fresh in Glen Rock.Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE Glen Rock police also respond…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Sedan Slams Into Fair Lawn Bank Building Sedan Slams Into Fair Lawn Bank Building
Sedan Slams Into Fair Lawn Bank Building A sedan slammed into a Fair Lawn bank building early Sunday evening, causing major damage to both. The Hyundai mounted the sidewalk, plowed through bushes and rammed the corner of the Provident Bank branch on River Road at Hopper Avenue around 5:15 p.m. The adult female driver refused medical attention for what appeared to be minor injuries. A building inspector was required to check the building for structural damage. Both the Hyundai and the Provident Bank building were severely damaged.Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE Responding were borough police, firefighters and EMS and members o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Guns Along The Passaic: Tipster Leads Fair Lawn Police To Box Of Weapons Guns Along The Passaic: Tipster Leads Fair Lawn Police To Box Of Weapons
Guns Along The Passaic: Tipster Leads Fair Lawn Police To Box Of Weapons Fair Lawn police acting on a tip found a trio of handguns behind a local restaurant. Checking out the tip from a retired Parsippany police officer of weapons dumped into the Passaic River, officers found the guns Wednesday night in a box on the riverbank behind Lucky Steak Plate on Maple Avenue off River Road. Members of the Fair Lawn Rescue Squad and Fire Co. 1 put boats in the river, Sgt. Brian Metzler said, but didn't find any additional firearms. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office was notified. Makes and models were temporarily withheld while an investigation into the source of the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Dive Teams Search Passaic River For Evidence In Investigation Dive Teams Search Passaic River For Evidence In Investigation
Dive Teams Search Passaic River For Evidence In Investigation Dive teams were searching the bottom of the Passaic River Wednesday morning. Members of a Bergen County regional SCUBA task force responded to the area behind the Memorial Pool in Fair Lawn for an evidence search that the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office scheduled earlier this week. What they were searching for wasn't immediately disclosed, although a source with knowledge of the investigation said there's a Monmouth County connection. Among the responders were teams from Lyndhurst, Mahwah, Wallington and Wyckoff, as well as the Fair Lawn Rescue Squad and Parsippany's Rockaway Neck Volun…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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PHOTOS: Firefighters Douse Fair Lawn House Blaze PHOTOS: Firefighters Douse Fair Lawn House Blaze
Photos: Firefighters Douse Fair Lawn House Blaze Firefighters needed about an hour to put down a Fair Lawn house blaze Sunday night. No injuries were immediately reported. The two-alarm Plaza Road blaze began as a basement fire around 7 p.m. before extending to the first floor. Neighbors said smoke alarms alerted the occupants, who were seen outside the house. Firefighters had it knocked within an hour. Saddle Brook firefighters joined their Fair Lawn colleagues.  Also responding were Fair Lawn police, the Fair Lawn Rescue Squad and the Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance Squad and an ambulance from Glen Rock. Fire extended to the first…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Fair Lawn PD: Teens Hospitalized After Driving Car That Went Airborne Over Pedestrian Bridge Fair Lawn PD: Teens Hospitalized After Driving Car That Went Airborne Over Pedestrian Bridge
Fair Lawn PD: Teens Hospitalized After Driving Car That Went Airborne Over Pedestrian Bridge A pair of Fair Lawn teens were taken to the hospital with significant but non life-threatening injuries after driving over a pedestrian tunnel and subsequently crashing, authorities said. Police responding to Howard Avenue at Alden Terrace around 9:35 p.m. found a 2004 Acura that had been purposely driven over the eastbound pedestrian tunnel, Fair Lawn Police Sgt. Brian Metzler said. The car was forced into the air after hitting a hump in the roadway. Once it landed, the car swerved to the right, struck a "no parking" sign and then a tree before coming to rest, Metzler said. The 17-year-ol…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Responders Rescue Seriously Injured Worker In Fair Lawn Construction Fall Responders Rescue Seriously Injured Worker In Fair Lawn Construction Fall
Responders Rescue Seriously Injured Worker In Fair Lawn Construction Fall Fair Lawn responders rescued a worker who fell from a scaffold onto concrete footing at a construction site early Friday. Borough firefighters and Fair Lawn Rescue Squad members who brought a ladder and a Stokes basket got the 51-year-old worker safely out of the trench at the River Road site behind the CVS shortly before 8 a.m., police Sgt. Brian Metzler said. He’d fallen 10 or so feet at the site, where a senior complex is being built, Metzler said. The Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance Corps took the victim to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson with several injuries – none of …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SUVs, Sedan Involved In Chain-Reaction Fair Lawn Crash After Driver Has Diabetic Emergency SUVs, Sedan Involved In Chain-Reaction Fair Lawn Crash After Driver Has Diabetic Emergency
SUVs, Sedan Involved In Chain-Reaction Fair Lawn Crash After Driver Has Diabetic Emergency Two SUVs and a sedan were involved in a chain-reaction crash Friday afternoon in Fair Lawn after one of the drivers apparently had a diabetic episode, police said. Both ALS and BLS units responded to the crash just after 4 p.m. in front of the iHop on westbound Broadway. The extent of injuries wasn't immediately known. The Fair Lawn Rescue Squad also responded to clean up a fuel spill. Traffic on Broadway was jammed after the crash, which occurred barely a half-hour after a hit-run on southbound Route 208. An SUV was severely damaged in the chain-reaction crash on Broadway in Fair Law…

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by Jerry DeMarco