1st Responder Broadcast Network is the definitive source of local news for the Emergency Service Community portal and Resource for Firefighting, Fire, Rescue, EMS and Safety.

July 30, 2010

Sign In | Get Registered

Product & Services

FIREFIGHTING EQUIPME...

New Jersey Fire Equi...

Info@NJFE.com

http://www.NJFE.com

View All

To immediately access any story, please enter the Story Number in the above box.

Pumper

Fire Line Equipment

Other

1978

1978 Ward LaFrance Pumper

Download the 2010 issue of 1st Responder Broadcast Network Media Kit.

If you want to see your department’s activities in
the newspaper and on the Internet, as a 1RBN Correspondent you have the powers to make that happen.

New Jersey

Bloomingdale battles structure fire in frigid temperatures


By RAYMOND SHATTUCK Senior Correspondent

1st Responder Network	Story Number 011609129

By Raymond Shattuck

Bloomingdale firefighters battling a fire on Hamburg Turnpike on Friday, January 16, 2009.

By Raymond Shattuck

Fire scene as seen from Hamburg Turnpike.

By Raymond Shattuck

Overhaul in progress.

By Raymond Shattuck

Overhaul.

By Raymond Shattuck

FAST team.

By Raymond Shattuck

Bloomingdale Rescue 663.

BLOOMINGDALE, NJ - On January 16, 2009 at about 2:27 p.m. Bloomingdale firefighters were dispatched to a report of smoke in the home at 33.5 Hamburg Turnpike.

Firefighters battled the weather as well with temperatures in the low teens and a wind chill of two degrees at the time the blaze broke out.

Assisting Bloomingdale were firefighters from nearby Riverdale, Butler and Kinnelon. Also assisting at the scene was the Tri-Boro and Pompton lakes-Riverdale first aid squads. One engine company from West Milford was moved up to standby at Bloomindale's Station 2.

The fire was quickly brought under control by firefighters and is currently under investigation by local fire officials.

More News From This State