photos and commentary courtesy of the Park Ridge Fire Department
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Park Ridge NJ, on March 13, 2021, at approximately 1:45 p.m. the Park Ridge Fire Department was dispatched to 1 Sony Drive, for a reported fire. A passerby called Northwest Bergen Central Dispatch and reported seeing flames and smoke coming from the vacant office building. The Park Ridge Police Department arrived and confirmed that there was a fire in the building and that there were workers on scene preparing the building for demolition.
Park Ridge Fire Chief Thomas Lepore arrived on scene and transmitted a 2nd Alarm. Additionally, upon his arrival Chief Lepore located a worker on the roof adjacent to the fire and began to coordinate his removal by the incoming fire companies. The man made his way through an unaffected area of the building and was located safely outside and Chief Lepore confirmed that all the other workers had safely exited the building.
Incoming fire companies stretched hose lines to the third-floor utility room and extinguished the fire. After the fire was extinguished, crews conducted extensive overhaul operations and checked the numerous void spaces on the fire floor for hidden areas of fire.
Chief Lepore said, “Once again the prompt response of our volunteer firefighters and our mutual aid partners brought this difficult fire under control quickly. The firefighters on scene were faced with numerous hazards in this building which is in the early stages of the demolition process. After a brief, initial, exterior attack, firefighters aggressively entered the building and advanced to the seat of the fire on the third-floor. In addition to hazards within the building, the windy conditions made the fire intensify quickly. Thankfully, no one was seriously injured battling this fire.”
Currently the cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Chief Lepore would like to thank the following responding agencies for their assistance today:
Park Ridge Police Department,
Woodcliff Lake Fire Department,
Montvale Volunteer Fire Department,
Tri-Boro Volunteer Ambulance Corps,
River Vale Fire Department,
Westwood Volunteer Fire Department,
Old Tappan Volunteer Fire Department,
Saddle River Fire Department,
Hillsdale Volunteer Fire Department Pearl River Fire Department
former Sony Campus.
Did Murphy drive them out of NJ?
California is losing Big Tech to Texas…so Murphy has company.