Mostly Cloudy 32°
Tag:

Brian McDermott

News
MASS CASUALTY: Engines Collide Headed To Paterson Fire, Critical Injuries Reported MASS CASUALTY: Engines Collide Headed To Paterson Fire, Critical Injuries Reported
Mass Casualty: Engines Collide Headed To Paterson Fire, Critical Injuries Reported WATCH: A social media video shows a collision of two Paterson fire engines that sent eight of the Silk City's bravest to the hospital. CLICK HERE: Viral Video Shows Paterson Fire Trucks Colliding ****** ORIGINAL STORY: Several Paterson firefighters were hospitalized in a crash of engines that sent one into a building and the other into a tree. Both vehicles were headed to a fire at a furniture store on Main Street when they collided at the corner of Broadway and Straight Street around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10. One engine smashed into the front of a corner supermarket, while the othe…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
News
Fatality Confirmed In Multi-Alarm Paterson Blaze That Destroys One Home, Threatens Others Fatality Confirmed In Multi-Alarm Paterson Blaze That Destroys One Home, Threatens Others
Fatality Confirmed In Multi-Alarm Paterson Blaze That Destroys One Home, Threatens Others UPDATE: Authorities on Saturday confirmed the death of a resident in a late-night Paterson house fire that responders said could have been much worse. Firefighters moved quickly to keep the four-alarm Lafayette Street blaze from spreading, snuffing the threat such a fire posed to the neighborhood of tightly bunched wood-frame houses barely two blocks from the Passaic River. Paterson's bravest responded to a call of a fire with people possibly trapped at 103 Lafayette Street shortly after 11 p.m., Deputy Fire Chief William Henderson said. Firefighters found heavy flames on the second floor,…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
News
HEROES: Paterson's Bravest Deliver Elmwood Park Newborn In Back Of Ambulance HEROES: Paterson's Bravest Deliver Elmwood Park Newborn In Back Of Ambulance
Heroes: Paterson's Bravest Deliver Elmwood Park Newborn In Back Of Ambulance An Elmwood Park newborn wasn't waiting as two Paterson firefighters tried to rush her mom to the hospital. So they pulled over. Parked on the side of the road, Silk City's bravest delivered a healthy baby girl in the back of their ambulance. Firefighters Craig Puglise and Jeffrey Wanco responded to the mutual aid call at the Elmwood Village Apartment Homes on the other side of the Passaic River call just after 7:30 a.m. They found the 22-year-old mom-to-be lying in bed with her boyfriend nearby, Paterson Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Her contractions were three minutes apart…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
News
SEEN HER? Indictment Charges Paterson Woman With Trying To Burn Down Ex-Lover's Apartment SEEN HER? Indictment Charges Paterson Woman With Trying To Burn Down Ex-Lover's Apartment
Seen HER? Indictment Charges Paterson Woman With Trying To Burn Down Ex-Lover's Apartment A Paterson woman who has remained a fugitive for several months since authorities accused her of trying to burn down a former lover’s apartment was indicted by a grand jury. Ahkearah Muhammad, 24, should be considered dangerous, authorities said, adding that she could be somewhere in New York. The fire broke out shortly after 10:30 p.m. March 20 in a large factory building that was converted into 240 units at the corner of Madison and Essex streets in Paterson. A surveillance camera caught images of Muhammad pouring lighter fluid outside her former beau’s door in a large city complex, auth…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
News
23 Displaced, Two Hospitalized In Paterson Multi-Family House Fire 23 Displaced, Two Hospitalized In Paterson Multi-Family House Fire
23 Displaced, Two Hospitalized In Paterson Multi-Family House Fire Nearly two dozen people were displaced by Paterson’s second fire of the day, officials said. Both a firefighter apparently suffering from heat exhaustion and a civilian who'd inhaled smoke were taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center for treatment Sunday night, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said A citizen rang the doorbell of Paterson’s Northside Firehouse on Temple Street shortly after 5 p.m. to report a fire in a multi-family house up the block, Speziale said. The two-alarm blaze quickly went to three bells after firefighters found heavy flames in the basement and rear of …

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
News
Paterson Fire Captain Rouses Sleeping Residents In Early-Morning Blaze Paterson Fire Captain Rouses Sleeping Residents In Early-Morning Blaze
Paterson Fire Captain Rouses Sleeping Residents In Early-Morning Blaze UPDATE: A Paterson fire captain got two sleeping residents to safety early Sunday before flames blew through the roof of a string of attached homes anchored by a Greek restaurant, authorities said. The fire broke between a parked van and the 2½-story, wood-frame Berkshire Street building off Union Avenue shortly before 7 a.m., Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. The flames "traveled through the unprotected truss flooring system" of three attached addresses and blew through the roof before they were knocked down a little under an hour later, Speziale said. Lightweight materials use…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
News
HEROES: Man Rescued From Base Of Great Falls In Paterson HEROES: Man Rescued From Base Of Great Falls In Paterson
Heroes: Man Rescued From Base Of Great Falls In Paterson PHOTOS: City firefighters rescued a man from the base of the Great Falls in Paterson shortly after midnight Sunday. The rescuers used a tethered raft to row their way to the 32-year-old man, who was sitting on on the rocky island near the hydroelectric plant off McBride Avenue at Overlook Park's Lower Pavillion, city Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. He claimed he'd jumped from the footbridge above the falls, but that's a drop of more than seven stories. "There were no witnesses to confirm it," Speziale said. "The city recently reinvested in rescue operations with the purchase …

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
News
Indictment Charges Paterson Squatter From Germany With Torching Multi-Family Home Indictment Charges Paterson Squatter From Germany With Torching Multi-Family Home
Indictment Charges Paterson Squatter From Germany With Torching Multi-Family Home A Paterson squatter who set fire to a multi-family home after deliberately stabbing himself was indicted on aggravated arson and endangerment charges, authorities said. Ertugrul Abaci, 58, bled heavily as he staggered across Sussex Street last June 9, authorities said at the time. He’d just ignited a fire in and outside the attic apartment where he’d lived nearly 23 years – and hadn’t paid rent on for the past five, they said. Firefighters quickly doused the blaze without injuries or major damage reported. Five residents who’d been living there were nonetheless displaced, authorities …

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
News
Ex-Con Charged With Torching Vacant Paterson Home Occupied By Squatters Ex-Con Charged With Torching Vacant Paterson Home Occupied By Squatters
Ex-Con Charged With Torching Vacant Paterson Home Occupied By Squatters A 29-year-old ex-con with a lengthy criminal record deliberately set a fire in a vacant Paterson home occupied by squatters, authorities said. Erin Micco, a Florida native who recently lived in Rutherford, was charged with two counts of aggravated arson in the Tuesday morning fire on Pearl Street, they said. None of the squatters were injured in the two-alarm blaze, which was set shortly after 8:30 a.m., Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes, Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora and Paterson Fire Chief Brian McDermott said in a joint statement. The fire, which destroyed the 2½-…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
News
UPDATE: Resident, 62, Dies In Paterson Fire UPDATE: Resident, 62, Dies In Paterson Fire
Update: Resident, 62, Dies In Paterson Fire A 62-year-old Paterson woman died in an early-morning house fire, authorities said. Nancy Salt was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center after firefighters carried her from the first floor of the 2½-floor wood-frame house on Doremus Street near West Broadway shortly before 8:30 a.m. She was pronounced dead soon after, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes, Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora and Paterson Fire Chief Brian McDermott said in a joint announcement. Authorities were investigating the cause of the two-alarm blaze, which was declared under control about 90 minutes …

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco