Crime & Safety

88-Year-Old Bergen Co. Woman Hospitalized After Fire: Officials

What appears to have been an electrical fire broke out in the woman's fifth-floor apartment in Teaneck, officials confirmed Wednesday.

Pictured are Teaneck and Englewood fire trucks with aerials to the roof.
Pictured are Teaneck and Englewood fire trucks with aerials to the roof. (Englewood Fire Department)

TEANECK, NJ — An 88-year-old woman was hospitalized after an apparent electrical fire broke out in her Teaneck apartment, authorities said Wednesday.

The woman, who uses a wheelchair and an oxygen tank, was carried to safety shortly after flames erupted in her home at 34 State St. about 8:25 p.m. Monday, township Police Chief Andrew McGurr said.

Medics took the elderly woman, who suffered from smoke inhalation, to an area hospital, officials said.

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Hers was the only injury reported in the building, a five-story, multifamily residential unit, authorities said.

The blaze was contained to an electrical appliance in the woman's fifth-floor apartment and the nearby area, and is not considered suspicious, township Fire Chief Joseph Berchtold said.

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Mutual aid, including ladder trucks from Englewood and Hackensack, was called to help put out the flames, and remove smoke and heat from the apartment.

Other tenants were then allowed back into the building, officials said.

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