
Close Call in Ridgewood: Burning Garbage Truck Narrowly Avoids Disaster
photos courtesy of Boyd Loving’s Facebook page
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, A routine Wednesday morning in the Village of Ridgewood nearly turned into a multi-thousand dollar catastrophe today. On March 11, 2026, a sanitation crew was forced to make a split-second decision when smoke began billowing from the rear of their moving garbage truck.

