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Apartment Fire on Stuyvesant Avenue
At 7:03 am, Lyndhurst patrolmen responded the sound of a fire alarm coming from 130 Stuyvesant Avenue at 1:03 a.m. Tuesday, March 18. While on route, dispatchers alerted the officers that there was a working fire in apartment 12A.
Capt. Joseph Sarnoski, Sgt. Christopher Valiante and Officer Kevin Breslin were first at the scene and tried to get into the apartment on their hands and knees but were forced out due to the heavy black smoke inside the building.
The Lyndhurst Fire Department arrived on scene by then and conducted a search of the apartment. It was unoccupied, according to police reports.
A second floor tenant told the officers that she was forced to jump out her kitchen window to safety. The 27-year-old woman said that after hearing the fire alarm sounding, she opened her apartment door to vacate the building but was met by billowing smoke in the hallway. The woman immediately closed her apartment door but was forced to the window as her apartment began to fill with smoke. The victim then jumped out the second floor window to safety.
The woman complained of pain in her legs and buttocks. She was treated at the scene by the Lyndhurst Police Emergency Squad emergency medical team, reports said.
However, the victim of the fire declined transportation to the hospital.
Two cats were also rescued from the fire scene. One was administered oxygen by the patrolmen and transported to Veterinary Emergency Services on Ridge Road, while the other was brought to the Rutherford Animal Hospital
Both cats were treated and released to the building manager.
The fire was extinguished with haste by the firefighters. The cause of the fire was an electric coffee maker left unattended on the counter top within the apartment, according to police reports.
As of press time, the tenants were not permitted to return back to their apartments until repairs to code are made to the building as per the Lyndhurst Building Department standards.