There’s been another rollover accident on the eastern end of Bloomfield Avenue. This one occurred Friday morning at about 2:15 a.m. The car was traveling east on Bloomfield and veered off the roadway into the rocks just past Mountain Auto Body, in between Pompton and Sunset avenues. The car rolled over onto its side...
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If you were listening to the fire horn in Verona on Sunday night, you may have heard an unusual combination: 2-2-2-2. It’s a pattern of emergency horns that tells Verona’s volunteer firefighters that their help is needed in a neighboring town and they need to report to our two stations for their assignments. The...
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Chris Scheper, pictured in the middle above, recently became the newest addition to the Verona Fire Department. Scheper graduated from the new Essex County Fire Academy, one of nine new firefighters from surrounding Essex County towns–including Verona, Cedar Grove, Caldwell, Roseland and Bloomfield–who were the very first graduating class from the new academy. The...
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Verona has a ropes course tucked into the Hilltop and, earlier this month, seven members of the Verona Fire Department went through a team building program there. The program was led by Steve Neale, the Verona Ropes Course Coordinator, who is also a Verona volunteer firefighter. The group participated in some low activities and...
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The Town Council took time out from last night’s budget presentation to recognize the Verona Fire Department for its work on quickly bringing the large fire at 34 Morningside Road under control last Monday. Mayor Teena Schwartz praised the dedication of the VFD’s 50 members, 35 of whom responded to the blaze, many still...
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A house at 34 Morningside Road went up in flames yesterday in a blaze that caused firefighters from several towns to respond. According to the Verona Fire Department, the call came in around 12:30 p.m. and the first arriving firefighters were met with heavy smoke conditions at the front of the house and heavy...
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The Verona Fire Department responded to a call at 384 Bloomfield Avenue on Tuesday morning. According to the VFD, the fire started at about 10:30 a.m. in a second-floor bedroom when a mattress caught fire. A neighbor dragged the flaming mattress outside onto the porch, which caused the porch to catch fire, doing suffered...
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The Labor Day Classic organized by the Verona Chapter of UNICO National and the Essex Running Club drew 808 racers, the largest participation ever, and 200 racers more than last year. Santi Condorelli, a member of UNICO and one of the race’s managers, told the Verona Town Council last night that, thanks to the...
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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...
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You know what the fireworks looked like when they went off last night. But did you know what went on behind the scenes? Fred Goode was there, with camera. Click through to see some of what he captured.
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