"Smelt"? Who's editing this thing?

Great work by the volunteers of the FLFD!

What would you rather pay?...the town its $5400 for saving you and/or your childs life, or your local Funeral home? As aVOLUNTEER firefighter in one of the pictures above i take great offense to your comment Adolpho

" . . . fire had engulfed the home."

Am I missing something? From the posted photos, I see no evidence of the home having been fully engulfed.

The real questions were there working smoke detectors ? If not why ? This fire at night when all are sleeping ,Smoke Detectors save lives .

what does
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ HAVE TO DO WHEN SOMEONE' S LIFE CAN BE ON THE LINE.
great job by our fire dept. and the other towns that came to help.
some of you people who write on patch have to get real on some issues.

Right on flfdbest group of men and jr firefighters we have so stop putting them down if your house was on fire they would respond to your house they don't say don't go that guy has no respected for us they do what they do best put out fires

Adolpho- With a mouth as big as yours no firemen in the world would be strong enough to pull you out of a house fire.

Great job FLFD

This isn't the article to be complaining about the town on. Say good job and move on!

firemans do a good job

I am smart enough to understand and you got the point this was not the place ADOLHHO to get that issue OUT. also show respect for others it takes a long time to gain respect and a short time to lose it.

SUMtingWong- theres a BIG difference between police and firemen and EMT. Police arent volunteers and Fair Lawn pays them very well- salaries are on public record if you care to check for yourself. before the layoffs i would see multiple cop cars parked next to eachother, with the engine running for hours at a time. our current police do a great job with the numbers they have. you also state 4 officers were layed off- i believe they re-hired atleast one of those officers and hired 2 new officers recently.

once again the topic digresses...the house was engulfed with fire, the residents ran out without getting injured, police, fire & ems all responded AND none of them were hurt throughout the entire process. That means no one was transported to the hospital in case anyone was curious. The pictures do not show the extent of the fire because they were taken after the fire was put out from the side that was not ON FIRE! So thank you FLPD, FLFD and FLVAC for doing an outstanding job as usual.

Of the fire fighters who responded, how many are also municipal employees?

@sumtingwong: I guess you were there cause I was and it was engulfed. I already know what the word means so rather than judge my word on a photo taken after the fact, why don't you judge me by what it looked like before the FD arrived...

but since I am sure you will have another comment here is the def: Definition of ENGULF
transitive verb
1: to flow over and enclose : overwhelm

What a bunch of yahoo's. The fire wasnt that big. Looks like a page right out of the Glen Rock firefighting manual.

hey curly if i remember correctly flfd was at that fire also so before you criticize why don't you put on some turnout gear and rush into a fire the grfd is filled with hardworking volunteers just like fair lawn