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Demarest Officers, Firefighters Hospitalized As Heavy Fire Tears Through Home (
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Heavy fire tore through the second floor and attic of a Bergen County home Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 11, sending three police officers and a firefighter to the hospital and damaging two neighboring homes, authorities said. The fire broke out at a home on Woodland Road in Demarest shortly before 4 p.m., prompting responses from surrounding agencies, according to the Demarest Police Department and the Cresskill and Dumont fire departments. Demarest police were called to the residential structure fire at approximately 3:43 p.m., police said. Officers gained entry through a side door and conducte…
