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The 2016 State of the Industry report is available from the TIA and outlines key research to help tennis industry businesses and organizations. The TIA produces more than 70 annual research reports, and the State of the Industry analyzes this data to determine where this industry has been, where it is now, and where it is going.
TIA Webinar Series Attracts Hundreds
As of mid-June, nearly 1,000 people had registered for a webinar in the TIA's series of educational webinars offered through June, July and August. The PTR and USPTA offer Continuing Education Credits for those who attend the webinars, and Tennis Australia is promoting the series for coach development. Visit TennisIndustry.org/webinars.http://www.TennisIndustry.org/webinars
TIA Offers Summer Webinar Series
The TIA's new "Knowledge Base" will include a series of educational webinars this spring and summer that touch on many segments of the tennis industry. A number of the webinar topics for this "learning series" have been adapted from presentations at the Tennis Owners & Managers Conference that was held in Miami this past March.
State of Industry Report Values Tennis Economy at $5.94 Billion
The TIA will soon publish the sixth edition of its annual State of the Industry report, which analyzes data from the previous year collected through the nearly 80 TIA surveys and research studies. The State of the Industry report contains important information that all segments of the tennis industry can, and should, use to help their business. The full 16-page report will be available to all TIA members.
Nominate For the USTA Outstanding Facility Awards
Do you know an outstanding tennis facility in your area? Do you work at or manage a facility that you feel deserves national recognition? Apply now for the 35th annual USTA Outstanding Facility Awards program.
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How can you increase your business and promote tennis in your local area? By signing up now to participate in the industry-wide Rally the Family campaign, where you can take advantage of free promotional and marketing material that will drive consumers—and families—to your courts and programs.
POP Tennis Demos Continue to Drive Interest
POP Tennis, which recently adopted play on 36-foot and 60-foot courts using Red, Orange, and Green tennis balls, was demonstrated on-court at the PTR Symposium in February in Hilton Head. The sport will be demonstrated during the Tennis Owners & Managers Conference in Miami March 23-25, and in April, four Chicago-area Midtown clubs will hold POP Tennis pilot programs.
Club/Facility Owners & Managers: Attend 3rd Annual T.O.M. Conference
Tennis club and facility owners and managers, join your peers at the third annual Tennis Owners & Managers (T.O.M.) Conference, to be held March 23-25 at the Hilton Miami Downtown. The event will take place during the 2016 Miami Open pro tennis tournament. To register, visit TheTOMConference.com.
2016 State of the Industry Forum March 23 in Miami
The 2016 TIA State of the Industry Forum will be March 23 in Miami, in conjunction with the Tennis Owners & Managers (T.O.M.) Conference. The Forum will run from 10 to 11:45 a.m. at the Downtown Miami Hilton on Biscayne Blvd. and is free to the industry to attend, however, space is limited, so registration is required (visit TheTOMConference.com).
Facility Owners & Managers: Don't Miss the 2016 T.O.M. Conference
Reserve your spot for the 2016 Tennis Owners and Managers (T.O.M.) Conference, which will be March 23-25 at the Downtown Miami Hilton during the Miami Open. This third annual TIA conference will bring together leading experts in facility management, programming and other key areas to provide vital information to grow tennis businesses and bring in more tennis players, including Dr. Jack Groppel, Cliff Drysdale, Gigi Fernandez, Dr. Gerry Faust, Emilio Sanchez, Jim Baugh, Doug Cash, Greg Lappin and many more.


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Thousands Mourn Rabbi LichtensteinTuesday, April 21st, 2015
Approximately 10,000 men and women mourned Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein at eulogies and the funeral for the Torah sage who left Yeshiva University and moved to Israel, where he was a leading national religious rabbi and head of the Hat Etzion Yeshiva in Gush Etzion.
He was 81.
Hundreds of the mourners, many of them former students, flew last night to Israel to attend the funeral.
Rabbi Lichtenstein was buried in Jerusalem after eulogies at the yeshiva he headed in the community of Alon Shvut.
His son Rabbi Moshe Lichtenstein told mourners Tuesday of his father:
You were a soldier of Torah who stood at guard duty. You were general of Torah.
You were a scholar and a devoted father. You have established an entire world.
One morning I saw you sitting in a room in conversation on the telephone, and I did not understand why you did not go for morning prayers. When you finished, you told me you were talking with a mother whose son was murdered in a terrorist attack. She did not even know you, and you give her support and guidance.
Another son, Rabbi Yitzchak Lichtenstein, related that his father "did not know what anger was and never engaged in slander."
Rabbi Lichtenstein was born in France shortly after the Nazi occupation. His family escaped to the U.S. when he was seven years old. He earned a doctorate in literature at Harvard University after learning at Yeshiva University, where he eventually returned to teach and learn under Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, whose daughter he married.
Rabbi Lichtenstein moved to Israel one year after answering the late Rabbi Yehuda Amital's request to help lead the new Har Etzion Yeshiva in Alon Shvut, where he lived until his death Monday.Jewish Press Staff

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Alfred Deakin Professor
The title of Alfred Deakin Professor is the most prestigious that the University can bestow on its staff.
Below are the 2015 recipients of this title and a list of past recipients:
Professor Mirko Bagaric
Professor Bagaric joined Deakin University in 2002 as an Associate Professor in the School of Law, Faculty of Business and Law. Professor Bagaric became a Professor and the Head of School in 2003. Until recently (30 June 2015) he was the Dean of Law and Head of the Deakin Law School within the Faculty of Business and Law.
Professor Bagaric graduated from Monash University with a BA/ LLB (Hons) degree in 1992. He obtained a PhD from Monash University in 2001 for his thesis 'Punishment and Sentencing: A Rational Approach'. He was awarded the Mollie Hollman medal, which is awarded to the 'PhD student who has fulfilled all requirements for the degree and is judged to have presented the best doctoral thesis of the year'.
After a successful career in private practice for nearly eight years, Professor Bagaric commenced his academic career as a lecturer in 1999. In less than five years, in 2003, he was promoted to Professor and Head of School, at Deakin University. This is perhaps the quickest accession to a professional position in Australian legal academic history (less than 4.5 years from level B to E).
Professor Bagaric's career has been marked by a prodigious and high quality research output. He is the author or co‐author of 30 books and over 130 articles in leading international journals including the Buffalo Law Review; the San Diego Law Review; the Michigan Journal of Race and Law; the Albany Law Review; Law and Inequality; the University of San Francisco Law Review; the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law; the Brooklyn Journal of International Law and the Criminal Law Review. He has also published in all of the leading Australian law journals, including the University of New South Wales Law Journal; the Sydney Law Review; Melbourne University Law Review and the Monash Law Review.
Since 2010, when journal rankings came into existence, he has published 30 articles, 24 of which are in A* or A journals. A recent benchmarking exercise comparing the research output and quality of research of all legal academics in Victoria (except those from Victoria University and Australian Catholic University), showed that Professor Bagaric was the best performing law academic in the State. During the most recent three year audited period (2011 to 2013), he accumulated 55 points. The second highest performing academic had 41 points. Thus, he performed 25% better than the second most prolific academic. This achievement is made all the more impressive by the fact he was the Dean of the Law School during this time. The rate of the publications is not compromised by its quality. The benchmarking exercise had an inbuilt quality component, with articles in A* journals attracting 3 points; A journals attracting 2 points; B journals attracting 1.5 points and C journals 1 point.
Professor Bagaric's main work is in the area of punishment and sentencing. He has also written extensively in migration and refugee law and human rights law. His articles have been cited in over 50 court judgments, including the High Court of Australia and superior courts in Canada, Singapore, New Zealand and Ireland.
His research actively and regularly engages with the community, having authored approximately 500 opinion pieces on a range of socially relevant and important legal topics which have appeared in all of the Australia's leading newspapers. He appears regularly in the electronic media as an expert commentator on his research areas.
Professor Bagaric has influenced public debate and legislative change in the areas of refugee law and sentencing. His current main research priority is encouraging governments to implement an evidence based and normatively sound sentencing system, which secures four objectives: to reduce crime; to punish criminals appropriately; to minimise the cost of the system and to ensure the system does not violate important moral standards.
Professor Bagaric is one of 18 contributors to Future Proofing Australia (MUP, 2013) which is edited by Federal Senator and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs Brett Mason and Daniel Wood. The foreward to the book is written by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot who states that the authors are 'big thinkers on big ideas'.
Professor Bagaric has extensive legal experience. He is a former member of the Migration and Refugee Tribunal, where he wrote several defining decisions which at that time resulted in many Afghan asylum seekers being granted refugee status in Australia. He is still a practicing lawyer, mainly in the area of white collar crime. He has appeared at courts at all levels of the judicial hierarchy including the High Court of Australia and represented accused in some of the most high profile and important legal cases in Australia's recent legal history.
Professor Neil Barnett
Professor Neil Barnett joined Deakin University in 1991 as a Senior Lecturer following five years in industry and eight years in academic institutions in the United Kingdom. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1997 and in 2004 he was awarded a Personal Chair in recognition of his outstanding achievements in analytical chemistry. He served as Associate Dean (Research) for the (then) Faculty of Science and Technology from 2010 to 2012.
Professor Barnett's contributions to Analytical Chemistry has been recognised by his election as Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1989 and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 1991. He has also received a number of honours and awards including the prestigious Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Analytical Chemistry Division Medal in 2003. He received the degree of Doctor of Science from Deakin University in 2005 and became an international editor of Analytica Chimica Acta in 2010. Professor Barnett has been an active national advocate for his discipline and is currently a member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts (2014-16) and has served on the ARC Future Fellows selection panel and as a Cluster Assessor for the ARC Excellence in Research for Australia exercise (2012).
Perhaps Professor Barnett's greatest enduring contribution at Deakin has been his enthusiasm and support for postgraduate research students; he has supervised more than 30 postgraduate students to completion, many of whom have gone on to have outstanding academic or industry-based careers in Australia and overseas. Professor Barnett's outstanding mentorship contributed to his former PhD students receiving prestigious grants and prizes.
Professor Barnett has produced more than 140 publications in international journals, with a current h-index of 30 and total citations over 3,330. He has presented over 70 invited lectures and seminars at conferences, universities and industrial laboratories around the world. Professor Barnett's early experience with the iconic UK corporation Imperial Chemistry Incorporated (which later sold divisions to Zeneca and DuPont among others) encouraged his strong applied approach to chemistry research.
His work has attracted research partnerships with many industry collaborators including GlaxoSmithKline, CSIRO, Telstra, Victoria Police Forensic Science Centre, Forensic Science South Australia, Australian Federal Police and National Institute of Forensic Science.
Professor Barnett's research interests include:
- fundamental chemistry, spectroscopy and analytical applications of chemiluminescence
- flow analysis, HPLC, capillary electrophoresis and microfluidics
- applications in pharmaceutical production, process monitoring, oenology and forensic science
- identification and isolation of bioactives in plants.
Professor Barnett has served on a number of University committees including Academic Board, Research and Research Training Committee of which he was Chair from 2005-2009, the Research Management Sub-Committee, the University Research Advisory Committee, the Research Quality Framework Steering Committee, and the Excellence in Research for Australia Steering Committee.
Over his past 24 years at Deakin, Professor Barnett has clearly demonstrated outstanding and sustained commitment to the University as an excellent researcher, exemplary research student supervisor, dedicated mentor to early career researchers and as a national advocate for his discipline.
Professor Colin Barrow
Professor Barrow has been at Deakin University since 2009 and is Chair of Biotechnology and Director of the Centre for Chemistry and Biotechnology. Previously he was Executive Vice-President of Research and Development for Ocean Nutrition Canada (ONC) where he led the development of seafood-derived supplement and healthy food ingredients and technologies. In 2007 he received the prestigious award for Research Excellence from the Nova Scotia Biotechnology and Life Sciences Industry Association. This award is given to one individual each year for outstanding contributions to the biotechnology and life sciences industries in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Professor Barrow has contributed significantly to Deakin's postgraduate research activities in many industry-relevant areas, particularly in the success of the Deakin India Research Initiative through co-supervision of many students with Indian partners including BioCon, BigTech and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). He has also been highly regarded with our partners at the TERI-Deakin NanoBiotechnology Centre in Delhi and has been a significant driver of commercial research mentoring in the Faculty and beyond.
Professor Barrow's research interests include a broad spectrum of natural products chemistry, biological chemistry, food biotechnology and omega-3 oil technology. His current research is primarily in two areas: Omega-3 biotechnology and amyloid fibres and nanomaterials.
Professor Barrow has a current h-index of 32 with 180 publications and an average citation per paper of 27. His total citations are 5,161 with one paper over 500 and two over 400 citations each. He has received over $6m in research funding over the last 10 years. While at Deakin he has been awarded several grants, including the Lead Chief Investigator on one successful ARC Linkage and a successful ARC LIEF grant, an Australian-India Biotechnology grant, plus a joint CI on a successful ARC LIEF application in the last four years. He has also been awarded five patents.
Other service includes being a member of the Expert Advisory Committee for Canadian Natural Health Product Directorate (NHPD), a founding member of International Society for Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods (ISNFF) and being a Member of Board of Directors for International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids (ISSFAL). He also currently review grants for the Victorian Technology Voucher Program and am an STC Mentor to support the Victorian medical technology industry.
Professor Ian Chen
Professor Chen joined Deakin University in 2009 as a Chair in Nanotechnology in the Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM). Professor Chen came to Deakin from the Australian National University where he was node head of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials.
Professor Chen has published more than 200 peer reviewed journal papers and has a total citation of 3,300. He is listed by the ISI Web of Knowledge as the #1 top-author in Australia under the topics of "Nanotubes" and "Ball Milling" and #5 top-authors in the world under "Boron Nitride nanotubes". He has given 75 invited presentations at international conferences and 46 lectures. He is a current member of the editorial board of three international journals and has served as a referee for more than 50 international journals and grant agents around the world.
Professor Chen has spearheaded a partnership with the China Iron and Steel research Institute where a nanoscience materials laboratory is devoted to his research collaborations and he has also assisted in forging a relationship with the Chinese Scholarship Council.
He is a member of the ARC College of Experts and his expertise has been recognised internationally with his appointment as Adjunct Director of the Australia-China joint research centre for energy materials under the 1000 Talents Professorship program. Many laboratories around the world have adopted Professor Chen's invention of the ball milling and annealing method for mass production of nanotubes and nanowires and the method has been included in major nanotechnology reviews and university text books.
Professor Chen has received a total of $30m in research grant funding, including ARC Discovery projects on ultrafine boron nitride nanotubes ($360,000), nanoporous nanorods with improved electrochemical properties ($275,000) and porous nanosheets ($475,000). He has also been awarded five patents.
Professor Chen has supervised 25 research staff and 37 postgraduate students. These staff and students have also been extremely successful, with several Alfred Deakin postdoctoral research fellowships and ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher awards among them. In addition to his excellent research record and international reputation, Professor Chen has played an active role as a member of the IFM Executive Team and a reviewer of grant applications for IFM researchers.
Past Alfred Deakin Professor recipients
- Professor Mirko Bagaric
- Professor Neil Barnett
- Professor Colin Barrow
- Professor Ian Chen
- Professor Mike Ewing
- Professor Matthew Barnett
- Professor Kylie Ball
- Professor Clare Bradford
- Professor Graeme Hays
- Professor Ivan Stojmenovic
- Professor Rob Carter – Faculty of Health
- Professor Wanlei Zhou - Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
- Professor Jo Salmon – Faculty of Health
- Professor Michael Berk - Faculty of Health
- Professor John Endler - Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
- Professor Maria Forsyth - Institute for Frontier Materials
- Professor Fethi Mansouri - Faculty of Arts and Education
- Professor Michael Polonsky - Faculty of Business and Law
- Professor Svetha Venkatesh - Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
- Professor Jill Blackmore – Faculty of Arts and Education
- Professor Mari Botti – Faculty of Health
- Professor Paresh Narayan – Faculty of Business and Law
- Professor David Walker – Faculty of Arts and Education
- Professor Marita McCabe – Faculty of Health
Awarded Alfred Deakin Professorship
- Professor Boyd Swinburn – Faculty of Health
- Professor David Crawford – Faculty of Health
- Professor Xungai Wang – Institute for Frontier Materials
- Professor Saeid Nahavandi – Centre for Intelligent Systems Research, Deakin Research
- Professor Peter Hodgson – Institute for Frontier Materials
- Professor Julian Mercer – Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment


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As we prepare for the 4th of July Celebration, you should know that your
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Connecticut Q&A: Robert Sternberg
The Trouble With School Testing Systems
By NANCY POLK
Published: March 30, 1997
LIKE students everywhere, Robert Sternberg hates tests. But as a parent, a professor and a taxpayer, he is also sympathetic to adults' need to know just what they are getting for their investment.
Professor Sternberg, the I.B.M. professor of psychology and education at Yale, believes the desire for accountability in American education is overdue. ''Having a standard that you're held to always makes sense,'' he said.
''The problem is that the standard they are being held to isn't the right standard,'' he said. As for the familiar tests: ''They are the wrong measurement. They measure trivial facts.''
In his latest book, ''Successful Intelligence: How Practical and Creative Intelligence Determine Success in Life'' (Simon and Schuster), Professor Sternberg dismisses the Scholastic Aptitude Test, Graduate Record Exam, Law School Admission Test and the Medical College Admission Test, all perhaps better knows by their acronyms: S.A.T.'s, G.R.E.'s, LSAT's and MCAT's.
Professor Sternberg has discussed testing with his two children, Seth, 18 and recently accepted at Yale for next fall, and Sara, 16. ''I told them there's more to life, more to successful intelligence, than just these test scores. Doing well is a kind of game, a stupid game. Kids all know what going on,'' he said.
Recently Professor Sternberg discussed his ideas about testing and how to change and improve educational assessment. Following are excerpts from that conversation:
Q. Why do you object to standardized tests?
A. Together, tests of practical, creative and analytical intelligence are much greater predictors of success in life than those standardized exams, which only measure analytical intelligence. Abilities are more predicative of success than test scores. Unfortunately, testing is becoming even more important, with greater emphasis on S.A.T.'s, and in Connecticut on the Mastery Tests.
The field of psychology has grown and developed considerably during the last 50 years. But I.Q. tests like the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children used in elementary school have remained essentially the same since the 1940's.
College admissions tests have not evolved either. The S.A.T. in use today is not significantly different from the test introduced by Carl Brigham in 1930's. That's a disgrace.
The testing industry also determines the academic and employment future of America's children. At the end of secondary school students who want to continue must take standardized tests. Only a handful of American colleges and universities, including Bowdoin and Bates in Maine, have made admissions tests optional. For most, the tests are still mandatory.
I have no problem with appropriate testing. I think testing in general is fine. I have a problem with the narrowness of the current tests.
Q. Why does the testing industry appear uninterested in research and development?
A. They are a well entrenched monopoly. They have no competition; why should they change? It is alarming! Research and theory in psychology have moved since the 1930's, but to translate the ideas into tests is simply too expensive.
Q. Who are the testing companies?
A. Ability testing companies, achievement testing companies and the textbook companies are all the same companies. That tells you something. When you have the same companies serving all three functions, it creates a potential conflict of interest situation. How could it not?
We have created that system. It's not a natural born system. It was not handed down by the invisible hand of God. If you went back 40 years, we used parental socio-economic status, religion, race, which all still count to some extent. Now we rely on test scores.
Q. Who performs the worst on standardized tests?
A. The students who lose out tend to include more minority students and those who attend less affluent schools. It is also true that students possessed of a more creative or practical turn of mind do less well than their classmates. They are not viewed as smart in their own schools, they are not often the top grade getters.
I was considered a mediocre student in elementary school in New Jersey. I got low I.Q. scores. After that teachers treated me like a dummy. So I started acting like a dummy. I had a fourth grade teacher who expected more, and then I became a high performer. If I hadn't had her I would have gone through school as a poor student.
This is about wasted talent. Sadly these students who do poorly just think they're dumb.
Some students do succeed in spite their inability to perform on simple analytical tests but they are the exception and it is a stupid way to run an educational system. It is a system that is set up so that we waste talent as a nation. We have no call to waste talent; we need all the talent we have.
Q. Who is responsible for this situation? Is it teachers?
A. I do not blame teachers as much as anxious parents who worry that their children will not perform well on admissions tests and get into ''the right colleges.'' The result is that we have created a closed system. Textbooks emphasize conventional analytical abilities, teachers are trained to teach to students strong in analytical skills and then achievement is measured according to this single criteria.
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For nationwide gay marriage, more battles ahead
NEW YORK -- Even as they celebrate a momentous legal victory, supporters of gay marriage already are anticipating a return trip to the Supreme Court in a few years, sensing that no other option but a broader court ruling will legalize same-sex unions in all 50 states.
In the meantime, as one gay-rights leader said, there will be "two Americas" -- and a host of legal complications for many gay couples moving between them.
Wednesday's twin rulings from the high court will extend federal recognition to same-sex marriages in the states where they are legal, and will add California -- the most populous state -- to the 12 others in that category. That will mean about 30 percent of Americans live in states recognizing same-sex marriage.
But the court's rulings have no direct effect on the constitutional amendments in 29 states that limit marriage to heterosexual couples. In a handful of politically moderate states, such as Oregon, Nevada and Colorado, those amendments could be overturned by ballot measures, but that's considered highly unlikely in more conservative states.
"It would be inefficient to try to pick off 30 constitutional amendments one by one," said Fred Sainz of the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay-rights group. "Eventually this will have to be settled by the Supreme Court."
The Human Rights Campaign's president, Chad Griffin, told supporters outside the Supreme Court building that the goal would be to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide within five years.
To sway the justices in such a time frame, activists plan a multipronged strategy. In addition to possible ballot measures in a few states, they hope lawmakers will legalize same-sex marriage in states that now offer civil unions to gay couples, notably New Jersey, Illinois and Hawaii.
There also will be advocacy efforts in more conservative states, ranging from expansion of anti-discrimination laws to possible litigation on behalf of same-sex couples there who are denied state recognition, even though they married legally in some other jurisdiction.
The Supreme Court's decisions "underscore the emergence of two Americas," Griffin said. "In one, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) citizens are nearing full equality. In the other, our community lacks even the most basic protections."
Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, suggested that efforts to end that division would not be easy, given that many states have electorates that seem solidly opposed to gay marriage.
"The fight is far from over," Rauch wrote in a commentary. "By refusing to override those majorities, the court greenlighted the continuation ... of state-by-state battles over marriage."


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During last week's blaze, some Westmont College students huddling in the gym prayed while others watched the flames through the gym's large glass panes.
Classes won't resume until after Thanksgiving at the Santa Barbara school, where flames ripped through buildings housing the physics, math and psychology departments.
College spokesman Scott Craig says three dormitories and 14 faculty homes also were destroyed.
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"And what if she gets caught. What then?" Mike asked.
"Hopefully we have enough information that we won't need her anymore." Alex said, nonchalantly.
"What the he.ll is that supposed to mean?" Mike standing up, livid.
"It means that if we have to sacrifice some people along the way, if it means sacrificing one for the greater good, then it would be justified." Alex replied, standing up as well.
"So you would just sacrifice Ella for the greater good? She's not a pawn to be sacrificed!" Mike yelled, getting closer to Alex and clenching his fist.
Torie sighed and let go of Ryan, moving herself between the two guys. "Mike, we have to be reasonable about this. Ella knows what she is getting into. And I would never ask anyone to do anything that I wouldn't do myself." Torie said. "Mike, I get your concern. I have the same fears but Ella and I talked it over."
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Members of the Paterson Fire Department launched a historical website based on material from the 1985 book "Taking The Heat" as well as other sources. It provides an outstanding chronology of the fire service in the "Silk City."
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Four-alarm fire at Paterson Lyceum theater at 125 Van Houten St. on March 22, 1931. Box 457 was transmitted just after midnight.
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On Nov. 9, 2015, a 7-alarm fire swept the derelict Paterson Armory on Market Street and flames raged into the next day.
Towns as far away as Ramsey dispatched mutual aid.
"You deluge it with water, hope at some point the water overtakes the fire," Paterson Fire Chief Michael Postorino told NorthJersey.com
The armory was a Paterson landmark, made of red brick and and heavy timber.
Soldiers deployed for the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II from the armory, which was completed in 1896.
The armory also served as a community center and entertainment venue for concerts and boxing matches.
It was also the site of rallies during the 1913 textile workers strike.
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"You deluge it with water, hope at some point the water overtakes the fire," Paterson Fire Chief Michael Postorino told NorthJersey.com
The armory was a Paterson landmark, made of red brick and and heavy timber.
Soldiers deployed for the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II from the armory, which was completed in 1896.
The armory also served as a community center and entertainment venue for concerts and boxing matches.
It was also the site of rallies during the 1913 textile workers strike.
CLICK HERE for more on "Colorful History"
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The first major fire extinguished by Paterson's paid fire department, successor to the city's volunteer brigades, broke out at 416 Main St. on April 17, 1890 and spread to an adjacent building, according to that day's edition of the Paterson Daily Press.
The alarm was transmitted at 2:45 p.m. from Box 83 at Slater and Marshall streets.
The newspaper said:
"The flames made their way through the siding of the three-story story building at 414 an 412, and spread through the attic where the firemen kept it in check and extinguished the fire but not until the place was thoroughly saturated with water."
The original fire building was owned by Mrs. William Leonard.
The adjoining building was owned by Jeremiah Rogers.
Fire damaged a store occupied by William B. Allen, stationer.
The fire probably started in the chimney at 416 Main St.
Damage was estimated at $500.
Police cordoned off the scene "under the recently passed ordinance establishing police lines," the Paterson Daily Press said in a followup story on April 18, 1890.
The newspaper also noted:
"There were some persons who are disposed to criticize the management of the blaze, and say that the firemen poured in more water than was needed, but persons on sidewalks viewing the fire from outside the police lines are not in a position to know."
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015
On Jan. 11, 1917, flames and exploding munitions destroyed the Canadian Car and Foundry Company in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.
"In rapid succession the thirty-nine frame buildings, comprising the plant, were set ablaze and the explosions of the shells stored there could be heard for miles," according to a dispatch published in the Wisconsin State Journal.
Surrounding neighborhoods and businesses also sustained heavy damage. (Lyndhurst was then known as Kingsland, hence the name the "Kingsland Explosion.")
Remarkably, there were no fatalities.
According to the Lyndhurst Historical Society:
"Tessie McNamara, who operated the company switchboard, was credited with saving many lives.
"As the fire raged on, Tessie stayed at the switchboard.
"She plugged in each of the buildings and shouted the warning, `Get out or go up!'
"Escaping workers were able to cross the frozen Hackensack River or run up Valley Brook Avenue to safety."
The dispatch in the Wisconsin State Journal described the scene:
"The town of Kingsland and the surrounding country today bore every mark of having been thru a terrific bombardment.
"Some houses showed gaping holes, thru which the cold wind whistled.
"Roofs of others were perforated. Windows were out.
"The hard rock road near the big munitions plant was pitted with shell holes, anyone of which was big enough to bury a dog in.
"The Delaware and Lackawanna railroad tracks were torn up for a distance of two miles.
"Rails were twisted and ties blown out of place."
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On Feb. 8, 1980, fire destroyed Paterson's old police headquarters at 111 Washington Street. The blaze at Box 171 went to a general alarm. In photo, Engine Co. 1's crew pumps foam into basement from front of building. Deputy Chief William Comer, later Chief of Department, is at center of photo from collection of Bruno Wendt.
On Aug. 13, 1944, a deadly fire swept a North Jersey landmark - the Palisades Amusement Park, which straddled Fort Lee and Cliffside Park.
There were six fatalities - three boys and three girls - and 125 injuries in the swift-moving blaze that started at the Virginia Reel ride, according to the Sept. 1944 edition of Fire Engineering magazine.
The 15-acre park was especially busy that day with families seeking relief from a fourth successive day of record-breaking hot weather.
An estimated 25,000 people fled from the flames, the Associated Press said. Fire Engineering placed the number of evacuees closer to 19,000 (15,000 from the park itself and 4,000 from the area of a salt water surf swimming pool.)
Some scaled fences to safety.
Firemen from 18 municipalities answered the alarm and a Fort Lee fire engine was burnt while pumping water.
Ambulances responded from as far away as Jersey City.
Fire Engineering described the Virginia Reel, where the blaze started, as a ride "built in the shape of a mountain" with bucket cars pulled to the top and released down "a twisting, turning path, passing through a small tunnel."
Here's how it happened:
A car carrying children started down the Virginia Reel when "flames knifed through the structure" setting the car ablaze, Fire Engineering said.
A girl emerged from the car at the bottom of the ride with her clothes on fire.
Rescuers, including a soldier and a priest, pulled the other children "huddled" in the car.
As the fire spread it "seemed to create its own draft."
Flames leaped 50-feet and "hop skipped" to the park's roller coaster.
Other rides were "going up in smoke almost before water could be gotten on them," Fire Engineering said.
Aggravating the situation, there may have been a delay turning in the alarm to the fire department.
When it was over, three quarters of the park was destroyed and between 70 and 100 autos were burned in the parking lot, according to the Associated Press.
Among the fire departments in attendance:
Town of Palisades Park
Fort Lee
Cliffside Park
North Bergen
Union City
Ridgefield Park
Hasbrouck Heights
Englewood Cliffs
SOURCES: Fire Engineering, Associated Press
FedEx Flight 14 crashed during landing at Newark's airport on July 31, 1997. The pilot was unable to slow the aircraft's descent. It bounced and rolled on the runway. The crew survived.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
On the fire ground
Firefighter John A. Nicosia (1962-1991)
Photos: padphotography, legacy.com
On Jan. 17, 1991, a general alarm fire broke out at 161 Main Street - the building that once housed the Meyer Brothers department store - and claimed the life of a Paterson firefighter.
The body of John A. Nicosia, 28, a member of Engine 4, was recovered two days later.
From the old department store, "the fire spread to a second building and there was a minor blow-out of windows and a large ball of fire," according to the U.S. Fire Administration. "There was a roll call and head count taken at this time and it was determined that Firefighter Nicosia was missing.
"Search and rescue procedures began immediately. The search continued for two days until Firefighter Nicosia's body was found in the basement of the initial structure."
Nicosia was honored on the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
The New York Times - Jan. 18, 1991
Fire Destroys 15 Paterson Stores; Firefighter Is Missing Amid Ruins
By ROBERT E. TOMASSON
A fire raged out of control throughout the day yesterday in downtown Paterson, N.J., destroying at least 15 stores and casting a pall of black smoke over the old industrial city of 139,000 people.
At 5 P.M., an exhausted Mayor William J. Pascrell Jr. said the fire "is contained but not under control." By late last night the fire still was not completely out. The search for a missing firefighter continued into the night along the block and a half of smoldering ruins.
"We know he went in there, but with collapsing walls and ceilings, we don't know what happened," said Mr. Pascrell. The smoke was so thick, he said, that the firefighters could not see even with their lights.
Officials did not know what caused the fire, which broke out shortly before 6 A.M. in Underground II, a clothing store at 161 Main Street in what had once been Meyer Brothers, a major department store. Whipped by strong winds, the fire spread rapidly up and down the stores lining the street. 'Very, Very Intense'
The missing firefighter, who was identified as John Nicosia, 27 years old, had entered the clothing store with several others, but failed to return when they were driven out by the heat and smoke, the Mayor said. He had been a firefighter about five years, a fire official said.
By midmorning virtually all of the city's 235 firefighters were at the scene and calls went out to a dozen surrounding towns in Passaic and Bergen Counties for additional units. By midafternoon nearly 400 firefighters were at the scene.
The fire did not threaten any residential areas.
"That whole block is gone," said James Miller, the manager of the Furniture King on Main Street beyond the fire. "We were up on the roof before -- we're in a four-story building -- and we could feel the heat. It was very, very intense."
As the firefighters battled the blaze along Main Street, the fire ignited the roofs of other commercial buildings to the east along Washington Street, which continued to burn into the evening.
Several firefighters were treated for minor injuries and smoke inhalation. Mayor Pascrell was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center for treatment of smoke inhalation and released.
Mr. Pascrell said the initial damage estimate, not including the contents of the stores, was between $13 million and $15 million.
"We're talking about a major disaster here," the Mayor said. "It's devastating, but we'll come back."
A Labor Day fire in 1985 in nearby Passaic destroyed 23 acres of industrial property that has still not been rebuilt.
Posted by PATERSON FIRE JOURNAL at Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Thursday, February 26, 2015
The City of Elizabeth was the scene of three deadly commercial airline accidents from December 1951 to February 1952.
A total of 119 people died; most aboard aircraft, some on the ground.
The third accident led to a four-month closure of Newark Airport, where the flights originated.
This elizabethnjfire.com photo shows firemen at site of Dec. 16, 1951 crash of Miami Airlines flight that killed all 56 people aboard.
Posted by PATERSON FIRE JOURNAL at Thursday, February 26, 2015
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
On Nov. 5, 2014, Paterson firefighters battled a 4-alarm blaze in a residential building at 12th Avenue and Rosa Parks Boulevard.
Posted by PATERSON FIRE JOURNAL at Wednesday, November 05, 2014
Friday, October 24, 2014
On Aug. 27, 2014, a four-alarm fire destroyed the Central Baptist Church at 6 East 20th St. in Paterson. Flames erupted during a bible study class. Adjacent structures were damaged. A firefighter was injured. The church was made of wood.
Photo: The Ledger - Google News Archives
Woman trapped by fire on 8th floor of Alexander Hamilton Hotel
Oct. 18, 2014 marked the 30th anniversary of the 1984 fire at the Alexander Hamilton Hotel that claimed 15 lives. The hotel was once the pride of Paterson but fell into disrepair. Box 181 rang in at 12:14 a.m.
Lower photos: Paterson Retired Firefighters
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
MOTOR FLEET: Fire Headquarters, Van Houten Street, Paterson, New Jersey. Lyceum Theatre to right. Headquarters moved to Madison Avenue in 1982.
Friday, May 2, 2014
Riot street scene
Capt. Moran
During the Newark riots of 1967, Captain Michael F. Moran of the Newark Fire Department was shot and killed by sniper as he climbed an aerial ladder. He was the father of six children. Moran and his crew from Truck Co. 11 were investigating an alarm on Central Avenue near Presbyterian Hospital on July 15 when shots rang out from the roof of a bank. The six days of rioting in Newark left 26 dead and hundreds injured.
During the Newark riots of 1967, Captain Michael F. Moran of the Newark Fire Department was shot and killed by sniper as he climbed an aerial ladder. He was the father of six children. Moran and his crew from Truck Co. 11 were investigating an alarm on Central Avenue near Presbyterian Hospital on July 15 when shots rang out from the roof of a bank. The six days of rioting in Newark left 26 dead and hundreds injured.
Posted by PATERSON FIRE JOURNAL at Friday, May 02, 2014
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Paterson Engine Co. 1, a re-built American LaFrance pumper with Tele-squirt added (from Dayspring photo collection via Paterson Retired Firefighters Facebook page.) The original rig was damaged at the Fulton Street Fire.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Oct. 15, 1967
Memorial at Ridgefield Volunteer Fire Dept.
Cliffside Park, N. J. (AP) -- The deaths of five firemen trapped by a collapsing wall leaves 14 children under the age of 21 fatherless. The Ridgefield volunteer firemen also are survived by five widows.
A fire department spokesman said $8,000 had been pledged to a fund for the survivors sponsored by the Hudson Dispatch, a Union City newspaper.
Bergen County authorities say they are investigating the possibility of arson in the fire Sunday at Cardinal Lanes bowling alley in this town just across the Hudson River from New York City. The Ridgefield Fire Department scheduled memorial services for Wednesday.
One civilian and 10 other firemen also were injured when the cinder-block wall collapsed as about 130 firemen from eight communities tried to control the fire in the one-story building.
The civilian and one fireman remained in a hospital today, but their conditions were not serious.
JOSEPH LICATA, a volunteer fireman from Palisades Park, said, "The trapped firemen were just about to enter the building. Then, all of a sudden, the whole place just went 'whoosh' and the flames traveled right down the building from front to back, blowing out the roof and a side wall."
The sole survivor of the hose crew, HENRY DENGLER, JR., 22, said he was at the end of the hose and farthest from the wall.
"We were pumping water through the door to spray the roof from inside," he said. "All of a sudden I saw a big gush of smoke backfire and come out of the building." DENGLER said he heard a "huffing noise" and yelled to the others to cut the hose and "get out of there." The next thing he knew, it seemed as if the whole building had collapsed and he was hurled 25 feet.
He helped dig the bodies out of the rubble.
The dead firemen, all from Ridgefield, were GUSTAVE GENSCHOW, 43, a tavern owner and 27-year veteran of the department; DOMINICK ACQUAFREDDA, 31, an employe of Lever Bros. in Edgewater; HARRY A. BROWN, 26, an employe of the New York Daily News; JAMES EDWARDS, 35, manager of a trading stamp store, and JAMES LAURIA, Ridgefield's building inspector.
Nine Terribly Torn and Scalded in and Around Edison Electric Plant.
Cars Stop, Mill and Stores Had to Close--Street Lights Out--Elevators Stuck 'Twixt Floors
Special to The New York Times.
PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 21.-- The explosion of four of the six big boilers in the Edison Electric Light Works on the Passaic River here at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon left this city and Passaic without electric light or power for three hours. The sudden cutting off of the light caused panics in several theatres, and women were hurt in the rush that was made for the doors.
One man was hurt mortally and eight others were badly injured at the scene of the explosion. The man who will die is Emil Van Houden of 52 North Main Street. He was scalded by escaping steam.
The others injured are:
CLAXTON, ISAAC, 19 John Street, skull fractured; General Hospital.
GALIGIO, TONY, 342 River Road, right leg torn off and head lacerated; St. Joseph's hospital.
HILZMAN, GUSTAV, 29 Cross Street, burned, head and body lacerated; General Hospital.
MALONE, TONY, 31 Cross Street, head and body lacerated; St. Joseph's Hospital.
McGOWAN, GEORGE, 83 Vine Street, arm broken, face and head cut; General Hospital.
PALLER, GUSTAV, 208 Fifth Avenue, head lacerated; General Hospital.
PARKE, FRANCIS, 331 Grand Street, ribs fractured, head and body severely bruised; General Hospital.
TROEVER, GEORGE, 30 Dewey Avenue, arms and legs broken and head badly lacerated; General Hospital.
Claxton, Malone, Parke and Treover were employed in the Edison Company's works. Van Houden, worst injured of all, worked in the Geering Silk Dyeing Company, across the river from the scene of the explosion. He was stunned by flying débris and for half an hour lay senseless on the river bank receiving the full blast of escaping steam, which was shot across the river and almost parboiled him.
The other injured men worked in the dyehouse of Formanns, Stumpf & Sharpe, which adjoins the Edison works. They were at work in the yard and were buried under a mass of bricks and débris, which overwhelmed them when the heavy roof and part of the brick wall of the dyehouse were smashed in by the heavy pieces of iron--parts of the Edison boilers-- which were hurled through the air as though they had been so much light cardboard.
The Edison employes{sic} were at work in the boiler house and were knocked unconscious by the explosion. They lay under a heap of débris, amid clouds of escaping steam, when rescuers reached them. In the dyehouse adjoining the victims of the explosion also lay unconscious amid the steam, which shot from the broken pipes in the boiler house through the aperture in the wall and roof made by the flying bits of metal.
The explosion shook surrounding buildings with a force which caused many to believe for an instant that there had been an earthquake. The Edison plant is situated in the heart of the mill district, and operatives in various silk mills were almost put in a panic by the noise, especially as it was followed instantly by the putting out of all lights, which had been turned on in most places because of the darkness caused by the rain-filled air and the heavy clouds which obscured the sky. Confusion and panic followed the sudden darkness in many places, and operatives were pushed about and trampled upon before cooler heads could restore order.
In the business section of the city the cutting off of all power caused discomfort to many. Elevators which depended upon electricity for power stopped in the office buildings, in many instances coming to a halt between floors. Hundreds of men and women throughout the city were trapped thus, and many of them had to remain in their cramped quarters until the power was turned on again about 7:30 o'clock.
In the Lyceum Theatre the going out of the lights was followed by a series of sharp reports like explosions, caused by the sudden stoppage of the electric current. In an audience composed mostly of women, there was an instant panic.
Screaming women ran frantically for the exits and in the excitement and hurry many of them fainted. Other women trampled over them in their terror, thinking only of reaching the doors. Quick work by the ushers quelled the panic before it had become widespread, however, and the audience finally left the theatre in a fairly orderly manner. No one was hurt. In three other theatres the audiences were alarmed, but serious stampedes were prevented.
The shutting off of light in the big department stores and factories caused them to close an hour of more before their usual time. Street lights, too, could not be turned on, and the city was left in complete darkness for several hours.
The trolley service was brought to a standstill, cars coming to a halt wherever they happened to be and remaining there while the employes{sic} of the Edison Company were working to repair the damage and get auxiliary boilers working. The result was that thousands of commuters returned from Manhattan to find their city in darkness and themselves compelled to walk home through the rain.
The area affected by the explosion included not only this city and Passaic, but all of the suburbs which depended for light and power on the big plant here. Nowhere did the cars run or was there light.
At the scene of the explosion a field hospital was established in the grounds of the Edison works.
Man after man was carried out of the Edison plant or the dyeworks next door by the rescuers and laid on the ground to be worked over by the surgeons from the General and the St. Joseph's Hospitals until the overworked ambulances could get then to these institutions. All of the victims were brought out unconscious, and many of the rescuers, who included other Edison employes{sic} and men from the dyehouse, were scorched and scalded by the live steam which played over everything and threatened some of the men who were trapped under piles of brick and iron.
At the General Hospital it was said that Van Houden could scarcely live through the night. All of the other injured were burned and scaled{sic}, and some were seriously injured, but it was said that these would recover in time.
Monday, January 13, 2014
Riverside Fire Station, Lafayette Street, Truck 3 and Engine 3
Posted by PATERSON FIRE JOURNAL at Monday, January 13, 2014
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Photo: Haldeon Mayor Domenick Stampone
The Borough of Haledon tragically rang in the New Year with a huge fire that swept homes on Morrissee Avenue on Dec. 31, 2013.
Paterson and other communities dispatched mutual aid.
No serious injuries were reported.
According to North Jersey.com:
"The fire started in a vacant home under renovation at 438 Morrisee Ave. and spread to two homes next door.
"Extreme heat also melted the vinyl siding and cracked the front windows of two homes across the street."
The original fire building burned to the ground.
Many homes in Haledon were built of wood in the early 20th Century.
Haledon Mayor Domenick Stampone told CBS 2 a temporary shelter was established at borough hall .
Posted by PATERSON FIRE JOURNAL at Wednesday, January 01, 2014
Friday, June 14, 2013
Photo: Paterson Retired Firefighters Facebook Page
In 1958, a backdraft at two-alarm fire at 144 East Main St., Paterson, injured Deputy Chief Daniel J. Carroll, Firefighter Daniel Elkovich and Firefighter Nicholas Ricciardi.
Posted by PATERSON FIRE JOURNAL at Friday, June 14, 2013
Monday, April 1, 2013
Photo: Channel 4
On Feb. 28, 2013, a three-alarm fire gutted a commercial building at 119 Godwin Avenue in Paterson, New Jersey.
Posted by PATERSON FIRE JOURNAL at Monday, April 01, 2013
Sunday, March 31, 2013
General alarm at Cliffside Dye. Box 123 was transmitted at 9:35 a.m. on April 8, 1980. Paterson was known as the "Silk City" for its textile industry. From Vince Marchese collection, via Paterson Retired Firefighters Facebook
Engine 9's deck gun in action at fire in the Riverside section of Paterson, New Jersey, in the early 1980s. Photo from Vince Marchese collection, via Paterson Retired Firefighters Facebook
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Can't a guy get a good nap around here?
Your editor was born Feb. 13, 1958 at the Paterson General Hospital and spent the first 6 1/2 years of his life residing at his grandmother's home at 179 Lee Avenue, Haledon.
Within the my first 24 hours of crossing the threshold of that old house, the fire service was emblazoned upon my being:
Everyday at a noon the municipal fire horns would blare the signal 3-3-3.
Test. Test. Test.
Tell me that wouldn't startle a brand-spanking new Patersonian and soil a few diapers!
So much for my noon nap.
Almost 55 years later I suspect that may have been the start of my awareness and interest in fire engines, firefighters and fire alarm systems.
Over the years, I have accumulated a variety of fire service memorabilia -- including a list of Haledon's fire alarm signals.
The signals are reprinted herewith:
1 - Wire Trouble
2 - Fire Out
3 - Test
4 - Company 1 respond to firehouse
5 - Company 2 respond to firehouse
6 - General Alarm
7 - Fireman's Funeral Call
8 - Mutual Aid Cal
2-2-2 NO SCHOOL [Editor's note: My favorite!]
12 - Avenue B and Jasper Street
13 - Barbour Street and Lee Avenue [Editor's note: My Grandma Strobino's house!!]
14 - Belmont Avenue and Cook Street
15 - Belmont Avenue and Henry Street
16 - Lee Avenue and Legion Place
17 - Fire Co. No. 2
18 - Cliff and Oxford streets
21 - Clinton Street by the brook
23 - Belmont Avenue and Zabriske Street
24 - Barbour Street and Van Dyke Avenue
25 - Van Dyke Avenue and King Street
26 - Hobart Avenue and Tilt Street
27 - Norwood Street and Southside Avenue
28 - Central Avenue below Tilt Street
31 - Church Street, North of Brook
32 - Haledon Avenue and N. 16th Street
34 - Bernard and N. 12th Street
35 - Haledon Avenue and Kossuth Street
36 - Belmont Avenue and Kossuth Street
37 - North 15th and Post streets
38 - Cona Court
42 - Belmont and Buschmann avenues
43 - Former Columbia Silk Mills
45 - John Ryle Avenue and Willie Street
46 - Belmont Avenue and Beam Street
51 - Belmont Avenue and Church Street (Fire Co. No. 1)
52 - Kossuth Street School
53 - Allied Chemical Co. (Harmon Division)
61 - Pompton Road and West Haldeon Avenue
62 - Central and Stansfield avenues
63 - Sam Braen's Sons Quarry
64 - Central Avenue and Valley Road
65 - Valley View Sanatorium
67 - Pompton Road near Ailsa Avenue
112 - Preakness Avenue and Elm Street
113 - Aberdeen Court
115 - Manchester Regional High School
234 - ADT Alarm
Photo: Paterson Retired Firefighters
On Oct. 18, 1984, a general alarm fire killed 15 people at the Alexander Hamilton Hotel at 55 Church Street, Paterson, N.J. and injured many others.
However, firefighters were also credited with saving many lives at great risk to themselves.
Box 181 was transmitted at 12:14 a.m.
Louis Ponstingel, who was working the midnight to 8 a.m. shift as a Paterson fire dispatcher, shared the following recollection on the 28th anniversary of the blaze:
"The usual procedure is to look up the box number and address of the incident, the cross streets and the companies to respond," Ponstingel said.
"I for some reason pulled the whole card file and proceeded immediately to send the box."
"I for some reason pulled the whole card file and proceeded immediately to send the box."
Ponstingel's father, also named Louis, was the captain in charge of Engine 10 that night and "he and his men were credited with saving many lives," Ponstingel said.
"If anything there was an angel sending the box out expeditiously and, who knows, may have helped save someone," Ponstingel said by e-mail on Oct. 18, 2012.
When it opened in the 1920s, the Alexander Hamilton was the pride of Paterson - a fashionable hotel with affluent patrons and big-money investors.
The riots of the 1960s contributed to the decline of the city, including the hotel.
When it opened in the 1920s, the Alexander Hamilton was the pride of Paterson - a fashionable hotel with affluent patrons and big-money investors.
The riots of the 1960s contributed to the decline of the city, including the hotel.
Friday, October 12, 2012
April 15, 1911
Killed when the three-ton hose and chemical truck he was riding overturned on Passaic Street en route to a tenement fire. He died at St. Mary's Hospital.
Deputy Chief John Doremus and firefighter Edmund Hutchinson
Dec. 20, 1955
Killed when the chief's car they rode in collided with Truck Company 1 at Passaic and Main avenues. The accident prompted the department to upgrade its radio system and sirens.
Firefighter William Jackson
Feb. 17, 1960
Killed while fighting a blaze inside a building when a wall collapsed, pinning him against a fire truck.
Battalion Chief Joseph Griffin and firefighter Samuel Latona
March 12, 1970
Killed when a wall collapsed at 181 Third St. during one of the city's most intense blazes. Several injured firefighters were pulled from the rubble.
Firefighter Alberto Tirado
May 9, 2001
Killed trying to rescue children he believed were trapped in an apartment building. He died of smoke inhalation.
Sources: Passaic Fire Department; Herald News archives.
U.S. Fire Administration
On July 1, 1988, a fire at the Ford Auto Dealership in Hackensack, New Jersey, took the lives of five firefighters when a bowstring truss roof collapsed.
Just a minute prior to the collapse the incident commander had instructed the firefighters working on the interior to "back your lines out."
This message was not heard due to defective fireground communications equipment.
Debris from the subsequent roof collapse pinned three firefighters while two others escaped to an adjacent room.
These two firefighters radioed for assistance but neither the incident commander nor the fire alarm dispatcher picked up the calls for help.
By the time word was relayed to the incident commander from civilians picking up the calls for help on their scanners it was too late to effect a rescue.
Associated Press
HACKENSACK, N. J. - Five firemen killed when a burning roof collapsed onto them were like "family" in this city, which never had a firefighter die in the line of duty.
"There are only 100 of us in this department and this is just a small place," Fire Chief ANTHONY AIELLOS said Friday. "In a town like this these are your friends."
"It's a sad day in Hackensack," added Mayor FRED CERBO. "We've never had anything like this in our city before. To have five firemen die is just incredible."
The fire, which destroyed the building and contents of a car dealership, started shortly after 3 p.m. Friday in the rear service section of the building, AIELLOS said.
The ceiling collapsed as the firefighters, who were inside the building, were cutting a hole in it to get a hose on flames in a space between the ceiling and the roof, AIELLOS said.
"All of a sudden the entire 60-foot square inside ceiling fell on them," he said, adding that four other firefighters inside at the time escaped injury.
All of Hackensack's 100 firefighters as well as units from surrounding towns responded to the blaze, which was under control by 6:30 p.m.
Hundreds of bystanders watched along the busy intersection in this New York suburb of 40,000 people while the firefighters' bodies were placed in ambulances.
Many clutched friends when stretchers bearing the bodies came briefly into view.
The victims were Capt. RICHARD WILLIAMS, 54, Lt. RICHARD REINHOGEN, 48, and firefighters WILLIAM KREJSA, 52, LEONARD RADUMSKI, 38, and STEPHEN ENNIS, 30.
All five were from Hackensack.
Four other Hackensack firemen died in the line of duty over the years, all in roadway accidents responding to fire alarms:
· Fireman Frederick Maas, Truck Co. 1, killed Feb. 6, 1919
· Fireman Robert Paget, Truck Co. 1, died June 6, 1935 of injuries sustained in 1932
· Captain Frederick Mathews and Fireman Andrew Lange, both of Engine Co. 5, killed March 23, 1953
Thursday, October 11, 2012
From the Editor
The Fire Journal Group sponsors a fire buff club -- via Facebook -- to promote the general welfare of the fire and rescue service worldwide.
Posted by PATERSON FIRE JOURNAL at Thursday, October 11, 2012
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
On April 6, 1975, Paterson Fire Capt. Fred Armona was killed in the collapse of the Fourth Christian Reformed Church at Fourth Avenue and East 19th Street.
Box 638 was transmitted at 1:43 p.m. and escalated to a general alarm.
Armona, 56, and several other men were on a hose line when the walls of the wooden church fell outward, sending the roof plunging into the sanctuary.
The church was built in 1911 and the congregation relocated to a site in Wyckoff .
Fire departments from the neighboring communities of Haledon, Prospect Park and Hawthrone provided mutual aid.
Armona was assigned to Engine Company 11, which was located at 97 Grand Street.
On the same day, Paterson firefighters contended with a blaze at an abandoned dye house on River Street, according to a newspaper account.
Posted by PATERSON FIRE JOURNAL at Tuesday, October 09, 2012
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Photo: Collection of Bruno Wendt
March 11, 1972 - General Alarm at Box 451 - Sylvette's Store, Main Street & Broadway
The Paterson Fire Department placed its first Snorkel in service in 1964. The Snorkel (upper left) consisted of a hydraulic boom, pipeline, crew compartment and nozzle. The boom was moved via controls in the "basket" or at the base. The Chicago Fire Department pioneered the Snorkel.
The Paterson Fire Department placed its first Snorkel in service in 1964. The Snorkel (upper left) consisted of a hydraulic boom, pipeline, crew compartment and nozzle. The boom was moved via controls in the "basket" or at the base. The Chicago Fire Department pioneered the Snorkel.
Posted by PATERSON FIRE JOURNAL at Saturday, August 25, 2012
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