Post Tagged with: "Fire"
Fire On Pompton
The Verona Fire Department responded to a call early this morning at 88 Pompton Avenue. Something, likely a cigarette butt, had gotten tossed into the much around the building’s landscaping and set it on fire. The blaze was quickly knocked back, but the incident should be taken as a reminder: The long, arid summer has [...]
Three-Alarm Fire At Caldwell Diner
Caldwells Patch is reporting this morning that a major overnight fire has devastated the Caldwell Diner. Firefighters from many towns around our area had to respond to the blaze, which went to three alarms. No word yet on the cause. The story is here.
Blazing Limo
While the rest of us were grilling or chilling at the Verona Pool yesterday, the Verona Fire Department had a rather spectacular car fire to attend to. Firefighter Laura DeWitt tells us Engine 10 was the first to arrive to the mid-afternoon limousine fire, followed Engine 16 and Truck 12. The fire was knocked down [...]
Double Emergency On Lakeside
Verona firefighters responded swiftly to a chimney fire at 78 Lakeside Avenue, just beyond Pease, about five-thirty Friday evening. The half-dozen emergency vehicles on Lakeside and Pease, including three fire trucks and assorted emergency vehicles, caused quite a commotion in rush-hour traffic. Clearly, somebody was paying more attention to the fire than to the road: [...]
Fire Call On Otsego
A chimney fire brought the Verona Fire Department to 45 Otsego Road this evening just before 9 p.m. Homeowner Greg Francisco said a passerby knocked on his door to alert him to flames coming out of his chimney. He called 911 and quickly got his wife and daughter out of the house. “The Verona Fire [...]
Heart Cakes To Aid Fire Families
Here’s a sweet deal for Valentine’s Day: For every heart-shaped ice-cream cake purchased at The Towne Scoop, the management will donate a portion to the two Verona families whose homes at 40 Kenwood Avenue and 6 Woodland Avenue were burned in pre-Christmas fires. “We want to help them in some way,” says store manager Lorrie [...]
The Play That Almost Wasn’t
It’s imbedded in theater culture that dramatic productions are particularly prone to dramatic calamities. This weekend’s high school production of “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown,” took the theater jinx to a new level, plagued as it was in the weeks beforehand by a Job-like series of unfortunate events, including a fire at the director’s house the [...]
Council OKs Relief For Fire-Damaged Houses
At its meeting tonight, the Verona Town Council approved a resolution that will offer some relief to the owners of the two houses damaged in recent fires. The assessments on the houses, located at 40 Kenwood Avenue and 6 Woodland Avenue, will revert to land only, from land and buildings, and the sewer charges at [...]
House Fires Update
It’s been a strange couple of weeks for house fires in Verona. It started on the morning of December 21, when a fire erupted at 40 Kenwood. Fortunately, the family was not at home, but the fire caused the loss of a beloved pet and the displacement of the family, who will have to rebuild. [...]
Fire Call On Linden
The Verona Fire Department responded quickly to a house at 156 Linden at about 4:30 p.m. on December 31. The call shut down Linden Avenue between Woodland Terrace and Cumberland Avenue, but it did not appear to be as serious a situation as the two recent fires at 40 Kenwood Avenue and 6 Woodland Avenue. [...]