Resident killed in Bogota house fire.

Photo by Damien DanisDamien Danis

Photo by Damien Danis

Photo by Damien Danis
A senior resident was killed in an house fire in Bogota on the morning of November 18. At 5:58am, The Bogota Fire Department was dispatched to a reported house fire at 320 River Rd. reports were coming in of possable occupants trapped. Engine 1 & Ladder 1 arrived first due to find heavy fire showing from a single-family house at the corner of River Road at West Main st. Members of Engine 1 made an aggressive attack knocking down several rooms of fire.
A unresponsive 74-year-old male who was in the home was rushed to Hackensack University Medical Center after firefighters and police officers gave CPR was on the front lawn , where he was pronounced dead, responders said A woman who lived with him in the home escaped and declined being taken to a hospital
The fire was brought under control in about an hour. Mutual aid from Englewood, Hackensack, Ridgefield Park Park and Teaneck asisted on scene while severeal ohter out of town companies covered firehouses .The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Bergen County Arson Squad along with Bogota police and the Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification, which collected evidence.