Rescues at Apartment

3-Alarm Fire

Just after0030 on December26, 2022, Hackensack Fire Department’s 2nd Platoon was dispatched to Prospect Avenue, forfire in a four-story structure. On arrival a fire was located in aan partment with heavy smoke throughout the building and occupants on the fire escapes. Asecond alarm was transmitted. Members helped remove occupants from the fire escapes and two young children were dropped down into the arms of firefighters. This was all performed by the first-alarm companies consisting of 18 members.

- Fire News photo by Peter Danzo

Box Truck Ablaze in Lawrence Township

Firefighters responding to a reported vehicle fire arrived to f ind an overturned box truck fully-engulfed in flames on the Trenton Freeway (Route 1) in Lawrence Township, on December17, 2022. It was just before 1920 when Lawrence Police and MercerCounty Central Communications started receiving multiple 911 calls reporting that a vehicle had crashed and caught fire along the southbound side of the highway, just priorto the Whitehead Road exit. The box truck, resting on its side up against a guardrail, was a mass of flames when emergency personnel arrived. The truck’s driverand a passengerhad already escaped from the wreckage without injury. Crews from Slackwood (Station 21), Lawrence Road (Station 22) and Lawrenceville (Station 23) extinguished the blaze using tank waterfrom Rescue 21 and Rescue 22.

- Fire News photo by Michael Ratcliffe