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Cambridge, MA
Police & Fire
Basement Fire Breaks Out At Greater Boston Area Church Clergy House: Fire Officials
Authorities are offering rewards of up to $5,000 for information regarding an early morning fire that occurred at an empty clergy house in Arlington, fire officials said. Firefighters responded to the area of 22 Appleton Street just before 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 21, according to a release from State Fire Marshal Peter J. Ostroskey. Upon arrival, crews found heavy smoke conditions inside the rectory located a short distance away from St. Athanasius Church. The fire was coming from the basement and crews extinguished it quickly, the release said. “There are few fire…
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
News
SWAT Team Storms Mahwah Condo, Seizes Barricaded Fair Lawn Man Who Threatened To Shoot Them
UPDATE: A SWAT team stormed a Mahwah condo and seized a suicidal man following an hours-long Easter Sunday standoff. Mahwah officers sent to Juniper Way in the Society Hill condominium complex on a welfare check of a suicidal 64-year-old Fair Lawn man Sunday morning found his car parked nearby. They’d requested a Bergen County Sheriff’s K-9 unit and were standing near the vehicle when the man emerged on a nearby balcony around 10:30 a.m., witnesses told Daily Voice. “He began yelling at the officers and threatened to shoot them several times,” one said. Then he locked himself inside and p…
New Haven, CT
Police & Fire
Driver Crashes Into CT Gas Pumps, Causing Fire, Police Say
A driver was arrested after crashing into gas pumps in Connecticut, causing a fire, police said. Authorities responded to a report of a crash and fire at a New Haven County gas station on Sunday, April 3, according to a report from the Meriden Police Department on Tuesday, April 5. Investigators found that a driver, identified as 24-year-old Ricardo Lopez, was driving south on Cook Avenue in Meriden and passing vehicles on the wrong side of the roadway when he lost control of the vehicle and veered into the parking lot of the gas station at 369 Cook Ave. The vehicle rolled and struck…
Brookfield, CT
Police & Fire
Firefighters Battle Pair Of Overnight Two-Alarm Blazes In Fairfield County
Firefighters battled two, two-alarm fires hours within each overnight. The first fire call came in around 11:31 p.m., Monday, Feb. 15, at 388 William St., in Bridgeport. Crews arrived to find heavy fire on multiple floors of a three-story residential duplex, said Scott Appleby, director of emergency management. "Initial interior crews were ordered out due to untenable conditions, and a second alarm was struck to bring additional personnel to the scene," Appleby said. Arcing wires presented a major hazard and UI was called to the scene to cut power to the address. Firefig…
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
Video
: Two Injured, Thousands Lose Power When UPS Truck Topples Pole, Ignites Fire In Clifton
UPDATE: A UPS truck toppled a utility pole in Clifton, igniting a fire that consumed a minivan, injuring a 70-something couple and knocking out power to more than 1,200 customers. The truck apparently snagged wires and pulled the pole across Main Avenue and onto a Dodge Caravan near Hillman Street at 3:58 p.m. Live wires burned the 77-year-old male driver and the crash injured the head of his 71-year-old passenger, Detective Sgt. Robert Anderson said. The Paterson couple was taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening, Anderson told…
Newark, NJ
Police & Fire
Update
: Jeep Driver Who Died In Fiery Newark Crash ID'd
Authorities have identified the man killed in a fiery Newark crash involving a tanker truck and two cars. A Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by Durhon Fuller, 34, hit the back of a tanker truck at the Bergen Street and Madison Avenue intersection around 11:50 a.m. Tuesday, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, and Newark Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose said. Fuller became trapped in his Jeep as both vehicles went up in flames, and died at the scene, authorities said. The impact from the Jeep sent the truck into an unoccupied Dodge Caravan, Stephens and Amb…
Hartford, CT
Traffic
Traffic Jam On I-91 In Meriden Due To Tractor Trailer Fire
The Southbound lane of I-91 in Meriden at Exit 17 is closed due to a truck accident and fire. Connecticut State Police said today, Monday, July 27 at 10:30 a.m., a tractor-trailer was in an accident and caught fire. Traffic is congested between Exits 19 and 17 - about 1.2 miles, the police said. Traffic is being diverted onto Route 15 south, via exit 67, the Plainville Citizen is reporting. No injuries have been reported.
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
Troubled Man Enters Paterson Police HQ With Shirt On Fire
An emotionally disturbed man walked into Paterson police headquarters with his shirt on fire, responders said. A desk officer at the Frank X. Graves Public Safety complex on Broadway quickly extinguished the fire and summoned EMS following the incident around 1 a.m. Monday, they said. The man’s condition couldn’t immediately be determined. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS
Massapequa, NY
Police & Fire
One Burned When Gas-Fed Tank Explodes At Long Island Home
One person was burned when an active gas-fed tank exploded at a home on Long Island. The incident began in Suffolk County around 9:56 a.m., Thursday, June 25, in the area of Paprocki Avenue and Chestnut Place in West Islip, said the West Islip Fire Department. Assistant Chief Robert Celeste, who arrived first on the scene, confirmed the tank explosion with an active gas-fed fire and one burn victim. Firefighters quickly stretched hose lines to start cooling the tank and knocking down the fire, the department said. As other crews arrived they stretched additional hose lines to protect th…
Bridgeport, CT
Police & Fire
Photos: Massive Marsh Fire Causes Delays On Metro-North Trains In Fairfield County
A massive marsh fire delayed Metro-North train service for nearly two hours and injured three firefighters. The blaze broke out around 8:45 p.m., Sunday, June 21, when the Fairfield Emergency Communications Center received a call from a resident on Chestnut Street in Fairfield regarding a fire in their backyard. Fairfield firefighters responded and when on the scene could see a large column of smoke and fire in the area and called for backup, said Fairfield Fire Department Lt. Robert Smith. Units, under the command of Assistant Chief Erik Kalapir, immediately deployed hand lines to prote…
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
Fatal Paterson Fire Victim Identified As Longtime City Resident, 83
A man killed in a Paterson house fire Tuesday afternoon was identified Friday as longtime city resident Charles Bennett, 83. Responders found Bennett unresponsive in the basement, where the fire in the two-family home on 17th Avenue broke out. He was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. Authorities were still investigating the cause of the two-alarm blaze, which broke out around 2:30 p.m. and severely damaged the three-story, wood-frame house. Firefighters had it knocked down within an hour. Five people were displaced. Funeral arrangements for Bennett hadn't yet been made…
Jersey City, NJ
Police & Fire
Victim Killed In Bayonne Fire ID'd As 98-Year-Old Woman
A 98-year-old woman died and two other residents of a Bayonne home were injured in a Sunday night blaze, authorities said. Firefighters found heavy fire and smoke coming from a two-story house at 18 E. 16th St., around 6:15 p.m., Deputy Fire Chief William Bartos said. Two residents were rescued from the second floor, and transported by McCabe Ambulance to the Bayonne Medical Center, Bartos said. Firefighters removed Maria Teti from the first floor, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Teti was also taken to BMC, where she later died of her injuries, fire officials sa…
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