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Photos : City of Newark Newark firefighters Augusto Acabou, 45, and Wayne Brooks, Jr., 49, died in a 2-alarm fire aboard a cargo ship at Por...

Fire struck the Windsor Wax Co. at 611 Newark Ave. in Hoboken in the 1930s. The building survived the blaze. 

Photo :  Paterson News via Paterson Fire History Frisky feline acrobatics - an amazing news photography - at 51 Fair Street in Paterson, New...

Fire destroyed the Park Theatre in Caldwell, New Jersey, in 1974. The theater was constructed in the 1920s.

On Jan. 29-30, 2021, an 11-alarm fire - accompanied by an explosion - ripped through the  Atlantic Coast Fibers recycling plant on 7th Stree...

  Photo :  Paterson Retired Firefighters A general alarm gutted the vacant Cliffside Dye Works at 99 Cliff St. in Paterson on April 8, 1980 ...

On July 7, 1951, the first five-alarm fire in the history of the Newark Fire Department struck the Warren Maritime Petroleum Corporation at ...

" On December 5, 1970, a very unusual fire occurred at the Exxon Refinery in Linden. A giant explosion, followed by ignition of several...

On Nov. 24, 1935, fire struck the Christian Sanitorium in Wyckoff.  Two patients died in the blaze that destroyed one of the sanitorium'...

By Vinny Del Giudice Paterson Fire Journal While doing research, your Fire Journal editor stumbled upon an article in the Paterson Morning C...

Paterson was the scene of three simultaneous three-alarm fires on  Jan. 26, 1926. At 12:25 a.m., Box 472 at  Main and Market Streets, two co...

  On June 15, 1921, a Perth Amboy fire engine racing to a blaze at a junk shop collided with an express train at the Market Street crossing ...

Paterson's central fire station, 115 Van Houten St., opened March 19, 1912 as quarters of Engine Co. 1 and Engine Co. 5. Later that year...

  Photo : Paterson Retired Firefighters In 1958, a backdraft at two-alarm fire at 144 East Main St., Paterson, injured Deputy Chief Daniel J...

By Hackensack Fire Department Hackensack Fire Patrol No. 1 was organized for the protection of property taken from burning buildings.  The m...

Photo : Paterson News Firefighter Rich Nocholas told The New York Times he saw "a big fire ball - it was sailing through the roof ...

Call it a signature North Jersey factory fire. On Jan. 14-15, 2002, an 11-alarm  blaze burned through the night at  Majestic Industries and ...

On Nov. 29, 1899, Paterson firefighters wielding axes and saws worked with police to free passengers from wreck of the Buffalo Express at th...

Photo: ABC7 An arson fire leveled the Most Blessed Sacrament Church in Franklin Lakes on Dec. 12, 2019. James Mayers, 27, was found not guil...

O n July 10, 1926, a lightning bolt set off a blast at the Lake Denmark Naval Ammunition Storage Depot in Rockaway Township. The disaster ki...

Photo : Gong Club Inc. Facebook, Collection of Jimmy Carey Ralph the Wonder Dog, mascot of Jersey City's Engine 6, posing in 1975 ...

Photo : patersonfirehistory.com On Jan. 15, 1955, a fairyland display in a Paterson home went up in flames during a fund-raising party, ...

On May 26, 1978, three major fires struck Newark - including a pair of four alarmers. "The first leveled 16 wood frame tenements at Avo...

Photo : Collection of Bruno Wendt Ladder up! Paterson firefighters knocked down an apartment blaze with a ladder pipe at the Christop...

Photo : Paterson Retired Firefighters Facebook On Sept. 3, 1953, fire crews contended with a three-alarm blaze at 80 Pennington Street,...

Photo : Collection of Bruno Wendt On Feb. 15, 1981, a four-alarm fire struck a row of frame buildings at Broadway and Madison Avenue in Pate...

Photo : Paterson Retired Firefighters Facebook By Vinny Del Giudice Paterson Fire Journal On Oct. 15, 1981, a spurned suitor set a 4...

On Nov. 24, 1935, fire struck the Christian Sanitorium in Wyckoff.  Two patients died in the blaze that destroyed one of the sanitorium...

Apartment building and TV tower   On Nov. 8, 1956,  a twin-engine aircraft flying in rain and fog clipped a giant television tower in No...

On Thanksgiving Day 1936, fire destroyed a North Jersey landmark - Ben Marden's Riviera in Fort Lee, the popular night club atop the ...

Photo: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Battalion Chief Gunther E. Beake On  Friday, May 13, 1949, a truck hauling 80 drums...

Photo : Passionist Historical Archives Collection, McHugh Special Collections, The University of Scranton, Scranton, PA Fire raged at St. ...

patersonfirehistory.com May 7, 1967 - Paterson Fire Department -  Engine 3

Image : Wikipedia BLEVE at Constable Hook - July 1900 December 1960 In the 20th Century, the North Jersey waterfront at ...

Photo : usfirepolice.net "I t's not easy being green," Kermit the Frog once said. Newark and other American cities fielde...

Photo: gendisasters.com On Feb. 6, 1951, a commuter train derailed at a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, killing 86 p...

Photo : Fire Engineering Perth Amboy volunteer firefighters Lawrence Dambach, 52, and Howard Adams, 35, died when an asphalt tank explod...

Photos : PM newspaper On April 26, 1942, a Hudson River tube train derailed at the Exchange Place station in Jersey City, killing five p...

Photo : Straight & Narrow website Photo: Straight & Narrow website On Aug. 24, 2019, a five-alarm fire destroyed  Pater...

Photo : Franklin Lakes Fire Department Franklin Lakes firefighters testing flame retardant gear in 1950s.

Photos : patersonfirehistory.com Metzler Ambulance Service provided emergency aid and transport in the City of Paterson in the 196...

Paterson and other major American cities were the target of anarchist bombings in the spring of 1919. The bombers were said to be follow...