Crime & Safety

Fire Company No. 3 Fights Father's Day Car Fire

Fort Lee firefighters responded to a fully engulfed Acura on Ellery Ave. Sunday

Fort Lee Fire Company No. 3 responded to this car fire on Ellery Ave. near Summit Ave. in Fort Lee Sunday afternoon at about 3:15 p.m.

Photographer John Ford, who lives in the area and happened to be home, captured these images for Fort Lee Patch.

“Suddenly smoke covered the neighborhood streets,” Ford reported. “Folks came out of their houses to see where the dense smoke was coming from. Someone yelled it was a house on fire. But some of the older Fort Lee residents knew the distinct odor of a burning car … The late model Acura was parked on Ellery Ave. just off of Summit Ave. The owner was nowhere to be found. Cell phones where pulled out and people were frantically calling 911.”

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According to Ford, Fort Lee Fire Department Battalion Chief Mark Sulcov was the first to arrive at the scene.

“[Sulcov] immediately ordered that the street be closed by the police department and notified the Fire Desk that Company No. 3 respond to fight the fire,” Ford said. “The car was left a smoking wreck after the fire burned the front end.”

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Ford says response time to the fire was about five minutes, and that it took about three minutes to put the fire out.


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