Why were those sirens wailing? Patch recaps some of Essex County’s recent public safety, police, fire and EMS stories.

A raging fire erupted at a New Jersey auto shop late Tuesday, tearing through a half-dozen businesses and drawing hundreds of ...

“This is going to change us forever,” Hillside Mayor Dehlia Vertreese said while speaking to reporters around noon on Wednesday. Vertreese said the businesses lost in the fire — a convenience store, a ...

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, New Jersey -- A father dropped his 3-year-old son out a second-story window to first responders below as a fire raged through an apartment complex in New Jersey Monday morning. The ...

Loved ones are mourning a high school student and Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) cadet who was killed in a massive fire that injured four other people and displaced 22 residents in ...

HILLSDALE, New Jersey -- Multiple firefighters were injured battling a fire at a private home in Hillsdale, New Jersey ...

Three people, including a student in a wheelchair, were rescued from a school bus fire during rush hour Tuesday morning in New Jersey.