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Category Archives: Fire

RED BANK: SPRINKLER DOUSES UNIT FIRE
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RED BANK: Potential tragedy averted as sprinkler system douses apartment fire in River Street Commons senior housing complex.
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October 7th, 2021 @ 1pm
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RED BANK: CAR STRIKES HOME
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RED BANK: No injuries as car strikes home, narrowly missing gas meter.
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September 23rd, 2021 @ 5am
RED BANK: STREET FAIR RETURNS
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RED BANK: Scenes from Sunday's Street Fair, a volunteer fire department fundraiser that drew thousands with craft and food stands.
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September 13th, 2021 @ 10am
RED BANK: A NEIGHBOR’S 9/11 STORY
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RED BANK: Twenty years later, a writer captures the story of his neighbor's escape from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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September 8th, 2021 @ 12pm
RED BANK: STORMS TO CLEAR WILDFIRE HAZE
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RED BANK: Oregon wildfires send haze eastward. Thunderstorms expected to clear air, but bring their own dangers. Here's the forecast for the Greater Green.
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July 21st, 2021 @ 5am
RED BANK: TWIN PUMPERS DELIVERED
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RED BANK: Volunteer firefighters take delivery of two new pumpers to replace apparatus at Westside Hose and Independent houses.
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June 22nd, 2021 @ 1pm
RED BANK: MAN & DOG ESCAPE HOUSE FIRE
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RED BANK: Owner and dog unhurt as fire damages their Bank Street home Thursday afternoon. Mattress heater believed to have been cause.
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April 22nd, 2021 @ 2pm
FAIR HAVEN: FIRE DAMAGES MANSION
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FAIR HAVEN: Fire damages mansion overlooking Navesink River.
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February 17th, 2021 @ 6pm
LITTLE SILVER: BASEMENT FIRE DAMAGES HOME
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LITTLE SILVER: Volunteer firefighters quickly stop a basement fire on Silverwhite Road; one goes to the hospital with minor injuries, chief says.
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January 24th, 2021 @ 2pm
RED BANK: AFTER ‘NO-HO-HO,’ CHIMNEY’S A GO
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RED BANK: After a 'no-ho-ho' for 'eyesore' chimney, Historic Preservation Commission OKs amended plan for Washington Street house.
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December 24th, 2020 @ 12pm
FAIR HAVEN: FIREFIGHTERS RESCUE TREED CAT
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FAIR HAVEN: Rumson fire volunteers bring ladder truck to rescue cat stuck high up in a tree. Clingy kitty appears thankful.
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November 25th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: Westside Hose Company has two new volunteer firefighters in the house, and one is already the borough fire commissioner.
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November 25th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: PLAN TO GET HISTORIC REVIEW
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RED BANK: Plans to remodel a fire-damaged home slated for review by the Historic Preservation Commission Wednesday night.
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November 18th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: SPLIT COUNCIL OKS ENGINE DEAL
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RED BANK: Purchase of two fire engines approved after Ballard and Zipprich find themselves on short end of another split within the all-Democratic council.
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October 15th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: Borough plans purchase of two new pumpers to replace firetrucks that have exceeded their life expectancy, officials say.
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October 12th, 2020 @ 6am
RUMSON: 9-11 MEMORIAL DEDICATED
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RUMSON: Volunteer firefighters, with an assist from an Eagle Scout, unveil new memorial to those killed on September 11, 2001.
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September 23rd, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: ALL SAFE AS FIRE DAMAGES HOME
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RED BANK: Early-morning fire from exploding citronella candle damages home; couple and their six cats and dogs escape unharmed.
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September 5th, 2020 @ 3am
RED BANK: POWER LINE STRUCK
RED BANK: Backhoe strikes live electrical lines on White Street. Operator safe after being briefly trapped inside vehicle. Video from scene.
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September 1st, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: WHITE STREET GAS LINE RUPTURED
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RED BANK: Underground utility work for the White Street makeover project ruptures natural gas line downtown, prompting store evacuations.
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June 29th, 2020 @ 10am
FAIR HAVEN: FIREMEN’S FAIR CANCELED
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FAIR HAVEN: The 2020 edition of the Fair Haven Firemen's Fair, a summer-ending tradition, has been canceled for safety reasons, FD president says.
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June 10th, 2020 @ 10am
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CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...