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

“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 ...

UNION CITY, New Jersey (WABC) -- An all-day wake is underway for the victims killed in the devastating New Jersey fire that ravaged a family and a community. The service for 2-year-old Jason Gonzalez, ...