A brick firewall from a building under construction in downtown Fanwood collapsed on top of an older, more fragile building next door on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 15, 2007, causing the older building to collapse and trapping three people inside. The Livingston Wilbor Corporation, a machine shop, was destroyed. Two men, company owner Garry Wilbor…
COVID-19 isn’t going anywhere any time soon. Despite vaccinations, increased testing and decreased hospitalizations, the virus and its variants are still with us and will be well into 2021, if not beyond. Transporting patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 is still a reality for EMS and still requires vigilance on our part. PPE is still…
The months-long rehabilitation of Ambulance 579 was declared a success on January 5, 2021, by Sgt. Ed Winsor who oversaw the project. The rig suffered a serious mechanical failure in April 2020, and the membership voted to rechassis it rather than replace it. The process involved removing the “box”, or patient compartment from its 10-year-old…