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Chappaqua, NY
Police & Fire
Electrical Fire Breaks Out At Chappaqua Home, Prompting Call For Water Tanker
Members of local fire department had to get creative over the weekend to extinguish an electrical fire that sparked in the walls of a garage. Late on Saturday afternoon, a water tanker from Millwood was dispatched to a Frog Rock Road home in the Chappaqua Fire Department’s district, where there was a report of smoke in a structure, though there were no fire hydrants in the area to help crews. Officials said that fire chiefs from the Chappaqua Fire Department were able to quickly identify the source of the smoke and fire, which was sparked from an electrical panel in the garage. The tanker a…
Pelham, NY
Police & Fire
House Fire Breaks Out In Pelham
First responders in Pelham helped save a house after an electrical fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon. Members of the Pelham Fire Department received a report at approximately noon from a Third Avenue homeowner, where there was an electrical fire that broke out in the home. Officials said that firefighters were met by officers with the Pelham Police Department and tenants from the Third Avenue home, who reported that there was smoke and fire in a first-floor bedroom. Fire crews quickly located the source of the fire, opened up the wall and knocked down the flames within five minutes of re…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Police & Fire
Substation Fire Cuts Power To Thousands In Elmwood Park, Fair Lawn
Nearly 6,000 customers in Fair Lawn and Elmwood Park were without power on Sunday after a fire at a sub-station. The electrical fire broke out in the electrical substation on Banta Place near Morlot Avenue in Fair Lawn around 11:15 a.m., knocking out power to various areas of both towns -- including the lights on Broadway in Fair Lawn. Firefighters had to rescue a Fair Lawn man who got stuck in his Ggrunauer Place garage after the power went out and he was unable to pull open the door. Several hundred customers had power back within two hours. Only 400 were left as of 1:45 p.m. ****** I…
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Update
: Waldwick Fire Victim, 83, Dies From Candle Lit During Storm
UPDATE: A candle lit during the storm that hammered North Jersey on Tuesday likely caused the fire that killed an 83-year-old Waldwick woman, authorities said. Results of the preliminary investigation indicate an unattended candle, lit due to a power outage, may have been the cause of the fire" that broke out around 6:40 p.m. on Van Court and killed Valentina Turley, Police Chief Mark Messner said Wednesday afternoon. First responders in North Jersey rushed from one emergency to another, as the rainstorm threw a one-two punch of high winds and lightning. Firefighters from Allendale, F…
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Police & Fire
Ridgefield Park Firefighters Douse Overnight House Blaze
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J. -- After aiding with fires in two neighboring towns, Ridgefield Park firefighters got one of their own just after midnight Tuesday. An electrical fire sent flames through the attic and part of a home at 137 East Grand Avenue. No injuries were immediately reported. A Bogota FAST team and firefighters from Hackensack were among the companies that joined their village colleagues -- who also thanked those from Little Ferry, New Milford, and Teaneck. Ridgefield Park firefighters were among the mutual aid responders to a Queen Anne Road house fire in Bogota on Sunday -- th…
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
2-Alarm Fire Guts Hackensack Auto Repair Shop
A two-alarm fire broke out at a Hackensack auto repair shop early Monday morning. Firefighters responded to the call at European Exchange at 4:40 a.m and saw heavy fire on the roof and in the mezzanine on the second floor when they arrived to the Lodi business at 4:40 a.m., City Fire Capt. Justin Derevyanik said. The fire was under control just after 6 a.m., Derevyanik said. An investigation found the cause to be electrical on the first floor in an outlet behind a refrigerator, the captain said. No injuries reported. Responding agencies included Hackensack, South Hackensack, Englewood, Be…
Mamaroneck, NY
Police & Fire
Nine Suffer Injuries, 60 Displaced In Mamaroneck Apartment Fire
More than 60 residents of a Mamaroneck apartment complex are without homes following a fire that sent nine people to the hospital for smoke inhalation, according to Town of Mamaroneck Fire Chief Paul Tortorella.The department received the call for a mattress fire around 4:12 a.m. Friday in a fourth-floor apartment at 3 Dillon Road, the chief said. By the time firefighters arrived the mattress and contents of the room were on fire, sending heavy smoke into the surrounding areas, including the hallways were other residents were evacuating, causing nine to suffer smoke inhalation, he said. All…
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
Clifton Firefighters Limit Overnight Blaze Damage At Catholic School
CLIFTON, N.J. -- Firefighters limited damage from an overnight blaze Thursday at a Clifton parochial school that officials said would likely remain closed until Monday. The apparent electrical fire, which damaged a patch of hallway ceiling at Philip the Apostle Preparatory School on Valley Road, broke out around 1:45 a.m. Thursday, responders said.
