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Multiple-Alarm Fire vs. Funeral Procession
March 19, 2026 | NEW JERSEY
RON JEFFERS, New Jersey Editor

Photo by RON JEFFERS
This article is a direct street report from our correspondent and has not been edited by the 1st Responder newsroom.
During a multiple-alarm fire involving a involving a Tonnelle Avenue bread business in North Bergen, March 17th, township police were notified that a funeral procession was coming up the major roadway to a mausoleum on the opposite side of the street. No apparatus were committed on the North bound lanes leading up to the mausoleum, so apparatus, chief, fire prevention and EMS vehicles and the Gong Club canteen truck were moved to make an opening for the procession as the fire was in progress.

