Verona, Cedar Grove Firefighters Assist Ocean County in Sandy Recovery
Volunteers helped perform search and rescue operations and more in the wake of storm.
They performed search and rescue operations and automobile extrications. They responded to carbon monoxide alarms and put out small fires. Volunteer firefighters from Verona, Cedar Grove and around Essex County were among those called into action to assist south Jersey in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. In the early morning hours of Friday, Nov. 2, just days after Sandy devastated the Jersey Shore, a Task Force of Fire Apparatus and Firefighters from Essex County responded to a request for assistance from Ocean County, according to Essex County Fire Coordinator John D’Ascensio. Mutual aid came from fire departments from Atlantic to Warren counties, as well as military installations throughout New Jersey, said D’Ascensio, chief of the North …
