Early Friday morning there was a call to the Fire Department notifying them of a fire on the train tracks in the Kingston Ave. station in front of 770. All together there were 6 trucks responding to the call. However B”H there was no major damage, and the fire was put out immediately.
TEANECK, NJ (CBS) Tragedy in Teaneck, New Jersey, as four children die in an overnight fire.
Hours after firefighters responding to a report of smoke could find nothing wrong, a house erupted in flames early Tuesday morning, killing four children and critically injuring their mother.
Two other children, girls ages 14 and 7, were rescued by a neighbor who propped a ladder against the burning home. The children were being checked at a hospital.
The dead children, whose names were not immediately released, were boys ages 15, 6 and 4, and a 5-year-old girl, police Lt. Norman Levine said.
Fire Chief John Bauer said the fire department got a call from the house at 8:30 p.m. Monday reporting smoke in the basement of three-story brick Tudor.
“On our arrival, there was no smoke. We spent over a half-hour checking the house. We couldn’t find anything wrong with the house. We checked all the electrical devices,” Bauer said.
At 9:30pm last night there was a fire on the corner of Union and New York.
Most of the building’s inhabitants are black, but there are a few jewish family’s that live there as well.
This building was recently purchased by a jewish business man and this is the second fire since he has purchased it.
The last fire was blamed on a faulty extension cable that heated up and caught fire, destroying 3 apartments on the fourth floor and causing some heavy exterior damage to the roof and roof gutters.
Last night’s fire was on the third floor and was relatively small and caused very little damage thanks to extremely fast fire department response which were there in minutes and had subdued the fire in minutes
3 fire companies had come to the scene, a total of 6 fire engines, 3 ladders and 3 pumping trucks and there were 6 fire chiefs on site as well!
There were no reported injuries.
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