Category Archives: Fire

The second floor is off-limits for now at Ashes Cigar Club. Turns out the Internet Café wasn't the only joint in town to come under the scrutiny of Red Bank safety inspectors in recent weeks. Ashes Cigar Club was shut...

By LINDA G. RASTELLI One year ago today, Jennifer Kalogiannis and her boyfriend, Mark Trezza, were awakened before dawn in her Sea Bright apartment by horrifying screams. It was bitterly cold that morning, with temperatures in the single digits and...

Volunteer firemen quickly extinguished the blaze. (Photos courtesy of Steve Fitzpatrick) The cause of a fire in an outdoor trash compactor at Riverview Medical Center yesterday afternoon is under investigation. A closer look shows the orange glow of the fire...

At St. James RC Church this morning, members of the Red Bank Fire Department, including Chief Noel Blackwood, in long coat at right, saluted the casket of longtime volunteer and borough councilman John T. 'Jack' Illmensee, who died Friday at...

Yesterday's Asbury Park Press reported that longtime Re Bank volunteer fireman and council member John T. 'Jack' Illmensee died at age 72 Friday. His obituary reports that he was a member of Liberty Hose Co., the Red Bank Rescue team,...

A pump-out hose clears water from a hole where a hydrant stood on Monmouth Street. Water service was shut off and Monmouth Street was closed to vehicle traffic this afternoon after a water line burst during the replacement of a...

New computers stand ready for public use. The problematic elevator is in the center background. [PLEASE SEE UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF STORY] The newly remodeled children's room of Red Bank Public Library is bright and colorful, taking cues from the...

Ex-chief (from 2003) Marty Coy fills in a 50-50 raffle ticket at the Fair Haven Fire Company's annual New Year's open house Tuesday. The event followed the swearings-in of Larry Hartman as fire chief, Shaun Foley as deputy chief, James...

Frank Sole has been a member of the Red Bank Independent Engine Company 93 for 57 years, and still responds to up to three-quarters of the alarms each year from his home in the River Plaza section of Middletown. Today's...

Grants of $25,000 each from an insurance company will put cutting edge technology in the hands of firefighters in Red Bank and Rumson. Red Bank Fire Marshal (and Business Administrator) Stanley Sickels says the borough's volunteer fire department will use...

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An early-morning fire today at the Red Bank Public Library was quickly extinguished and left no adverse effects on the extensive $1.2 million remodeling job now nearing completion, borough officials say. Fire Marshal Stanley Sickels tells redbankgreen that the fire...

What to do about the cramped Borough Hall is among tonight's topics in Sea Bright. By LINDA G. RASTELLI If you want to read Sea Bright's Smart Growth report, a copy of the document will set you back $40 at...

Bob Colmorgen did it again, identifying last week's shot as a boarded-up door at the former Anderson Brothers cold-storage warehouse at Monmouth Street and Bridge Avenue. Bob, a longtime Red Bank fireman in who continues to volunteer though he now...

Hospital staff and emergency personnel outside the Blaisdell Pavilion during this morning's fire. Riverview Medical Center spokeswoman Donna Sellmann tells redbankgreen that this morning's fire had no impact internally. "At no times were patients affected," she said. "They're safety was...

The scene outside the Blaisdell Pavilion early this morning. Emergency personnel and equipment swarmed Riverview Medical Center early this morning in response to a midnight fire in the hospital's basement. The fire was was extinguished within an hour without any...

A solution to water pressure problems afflicting homes and businesses on the eastern edge of Red Bank and a portion of western Fair Haven is now in the pipeline. The Red Bank borough council introduced a bonding ordinance Wednesday night...

Red Bank volunteer firefighters quickly brought a house fire at 31 West Westside Avenue under control shortly after noon today. There were no injuries. The cause of the blaze is under investigation, says Fire Chief Patrick McSorley. The house is...

Now-Second Deputy Fire Chief Joe Forgione had just put the license plates on the Liberty Hose Co.'s new pumper last November 7 when, "next thing we knew, the fire call comes in," he said. The alarm was for a blaze...

Sad news: the Asbury Park Press is reporting that Debra Yuhasz, the Sea Bright woman badly injured in a fire that destroyed much of the Fountains condo complex on Feb. 5, has died. She was 47 years old and had...