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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Multiple crews responded to a large fire at an auto repair shop in Southampton Township, New Jersey, early Sunday ...