2nd Bergen County Firefighter Dies In Line Of Duty This Week

UPPER SADDLE RIVER, NJ - A North Jersey fire department announced the death of one of its own Sunday, marking the second Bergen County firefighter to die in the line of duty in the last week.

Alex Moss, a firefighter with the Upper Saddle River Police Department, was mourned in a Facebook post from the department.

“It is with deep regret and great sadness the Upper Saddle River Fire Department announce the untimely passing and Line of Duty Death of Firefighter Alex Moss,” the department wrote. “Please keep the Moss family in your thoughts and prayers as they go through this tough time. Arrangements will be posted when they become available.”

Just three days earlier, the same department announced the death of Kevin May, a firefighter with the Westwood Fire Department, who also died in the line of duty.

May responded to an Oct. 16 five-alarm house fire in Upper Saddle River without apparent injury, but experienced chest pains and difficulty breathing the morning after. A stent procedure was performed on Oct. 17, however, he was found unresponsive and couldn’t be revived on Oct. 24. The cause of his death was an apparent heart attack, according to NorthJersey.com.

The multi-alarm blaze tore through a $2.76 million mansion Sunday afternoon on Hillside Avenue in Upper Saddle River. Read more: Mansion Engulfed In Flames In Upper Saddle River: Officials

“Kevin has served the Fire Department for 11 years and has served the positions of Vice President and Softball Team Coach,” the Westwood Volunteer Fire Department said in a statement last week. “Kevin was also one of the WFD’s Santa Claus actors and helped out multiple other Fire Departments in the area around the holiday season. Kevin has left a hole that will be extremely hard to fill. Kevin loved and cared for everyone around him. Rest in Peace kev, we will take it from here.”