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Change your smoke detector batteries
Did you change out the batteries in your older smoke detectors when you turned your clocks back? The Westwood Fire Department and Fire Prevention Bureau say itʼs a good idea.
“These batteries should be changed twice a year. A good time to change batteries is when we change our clocks forward or back each spring and fall,” the firefighters told Pascack Press last week.
The message comes with the Westwood Fire Departmentʼs monthly summary of activity. For October, says the WFD, the department was called 28 times for emergency assistance.
One of the calls turned out to be a serious fire in the borough: On Oct. 22, firefighters from Westwood assisted by the Emerson and River Vale fire departments, responded to a fire at Mi Flor Latin Cafe, on 57 Kinderkamack. According to the WFD, the fire was quickly extinguished. Damage was confined to the portion of the store where the fire originated. The young restaurant, “bringing a taste of Guatamalan Latin cuisine to Westwood,” remains closed and promises its breakfast, lunch, and dinner customers an update as soon as possible.
Overall, says the WFD, these 28 fire calls, one training session, and two work details required approximately 475 hours of volunteer time.
Working under the mutual aid agreement, the Westwood Fire Department responded out of town three times: with the Emerson fire department twice and the Saddle River fire department once.
Westwood received mutual aid from River Vale and Emerson Fire Departments one time.
Sadly, the Westwood Fire Department lost 11-year veteran firefighter Kevin May, who died in the line of duty on Oct. 25. (See Obituaries, Pascack Press, Oct. 31.)
The department says automatically activated fire alarms were received 11 times in October. “Although no fires existed at any of these incidents a full fire department response is required. Firefighters check the entire building to determine if an actual fire exists,” the WFD says.
It adds no cause for the alarm activations was found at two calls. Four times the alarms were set off by workers in the building. Smoke from normal cooking set off alarms on three occasions.
As well, the fire department responded to four incidents when citizens reported smelling natural gas. At these calls fire crews respond and check the area or building with meters. A small gas leak was found behind a stove at one home. Firefighters shut the gas and turned the situation over to PSE&G gas technicians.
At three incidents slight readings were found. Fire crews shut gas to appropriate gas equipment and, as is standard practice, the fire department turns these situations over to PSE&G gas crews.
Three fire department responses were for carbon monoxide (CO) alarms. CO is an odorless and colorless gas given off by improperly burning heating or cooking equipment. It can be fatal at high levels. Each of the CO calls required a full fire department response. The occupancies were turned over to PSE&G gas technicians for further investigation.
There were two calls on motor vehicle crashes in October. At one call, fire rescue crews used hydraulic jaws to remove a door on a car so emergency medical crews could gain access to the occupant. At another crash, firefighters contained fluid spilled with absorbent material.
Send your questions to the Westwood Fire Department at wwfdchief@westwoodnj.gov or (201) 664-0526. You can reach the Fire Prevention Bureau at wfpb191@usa.net and (201) 664-7100 ext. 308.
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FALL CLEANUP DAY, WITH PIZZA, NOV. 19
Hillsdale Fall Cleanup Day, sponsored by the Hillsdale Environmental Commission and Pascack Valley High School National Honors Society, is set for Saturday, Nov. 19 from 10 a.m. to noon. Check in at Veterans Park, downtown.
All supplies are provided. Organizers have arranged pizza for all participants between noon and 12:30 p.m.
Service credits are provided for scouts and students.
To register, write the Hillsdale Environmental Commission at hec@hillsdalenj.org
