Saturday, February 23, 2013
A Saturday morning fire burned for several hours and destroyed a two-family home on Second Street.
Garwood firefighters with the help of other local crews extinguished a three-alarm blaze in a two-family home on Second Street Saturday morning. The fire broke out around 4 a.m. and wasn't fully extinguished until around 6 a.m. The family who owns the building, their two daughters, their tenant and their two dogs were unharmed, reports family friend Denise Chmiel. Chmiel says only the husband and tenant were home when the fire broke out. According to Garwood Fire Chief Michael Tharaldsen the fire began at the stove on the first floor due to unattended cooking. "When we first arrived there were flames coming out of the side of the house on the second floor, going up to the roof," Tharaldsen told Patch on Sunday. "The fire had spread through…
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Crews from several towns worked for hours to extinguish the fire that began around midnight on Wednesday.
A fire in the rear of a two-family home at 304 Center Street in Garwood quickly turned into a three-alarm blaze Wednesday morning, requiring multiple Union County fire departments working for several hours to extinguish it. According to Garwood Volunteer Fire Deputy Chief Tom Spera, the fire appeared to begin in the rear or perhaps deck of the first floor of the building and worked its way up to the second floor. Residents evacuated after fire alarms and smoke detectors sounded and fortunately, no one was injured. Police and firefighters also quickly evacuated homes on the rest of the block. Spera says the back of the three-floor home was fully engulfed when he arrived minutes after alarms sounded around midnight. His crew entered the …
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Proceeds from an event planned for this evening will be used to assist the Bilson family of Cranford, whose home was destroyed in a fire on June 24.
Members of local emergency service agencies throughout Union County have always had a reputation for looking out for one another when tragedy strikes. So when a fire destroyed the Cranford home of someone on the Union County Hazmat Team, plans to help the family began to evolve almost immediately. In fact, a few responders and bystanders began discussing the need for some type of fundraiser even as crews worked to extinguish the blaze, which ripped through the North Avenue home of the Billson family on June 24, destroying the structure as well as all of their belongings. Bill Billson is a full-time member of the Union County Hazmat Team, FMBA Local 99, NJ State FMBA, and is a volunteer member of the Garwood and Westfield fire departments …
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Friday, May 4, 2012
The first fire occurred just three months ago and cost the company two garbage trucks.
The Garwood Fire Department put out a garbage truck fire at Bush Brother's Disposal Company on South Avenue, the second garbage truck fire at the company in the past three months. The truck was out picking up garbage before the fire began and when employees saw smoke coming from the back of the truck they dumped the load onto their parking lot at 55 South Avenue to begin extinguishing it. The fire department received the call at 11:47 a.m. according the Deputy Fire Chief Tom Spera, and extinguished the fire with one hose. When Patch arrived, employees and fire officials were cleaning up the debris and loading it into a dumpster on site. "There was heavy smoke coming from the truck and the fire was burning good when we got here," said Spera…
Teresa Tammaro Coghan
9:04 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
Just to clarify the fire did not start in Lorenzo's apartment. more ›