A 63-year-old man died following a house fire in Clifton on Thursday, according to the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office. Michael Lazor, 63, suffered injuries in a fire that broke out shortly before ...

PATERSON — The woman knocking at the Paterson fire headquarters window was frantic. In her arms was her four-month-old daughter, who was choking. Her skin was turning blue from the lack of oxygen.

An overnight fire damaged an abandoned Paterson high school early Thursday morning. Firefighters responded to the old St. Mary's High School on Sherman Avenue overnight for reports of a fire.

Paterson firefighters were able to quickly contain a fire in a vacant high school building early Thursday morning. Firefighters were called to the former St. Mary's High School and found fire on ...

"They (responders) simulate their training by putting somebody in the water," said Paterson Deputy Fire Chief Michael Hall. "So that person goes in the water, they lay inside the water, somebody ...