The Asbury Park Fire Department is set to receive a $24,700 grant through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant [AFG] program, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr., announced Wednesday. The AFG program is part of a coordinated, ongoing effort by the Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA] and the Department of Homeland Security in cooperation with the U.S. Fire Administration […]

A fire broke out on the 1000 block of Sewall Avenue in Asbury Park Wednesday evening. Asbury Park firefighters responded to the blaze shortly after 9:30 p.m. When they arrived on the scene, a vacant house on the block was heavily engulfed in flames, said Asbury Park Fire Chief Kevin Keddy. Firefighters from Asbury Park, […]

A Super Cab taxi van got lodged in between two storage tanks after the driver of the vehicle crashed into the garage door at the Asbury Park Waste Water Treatment Plant located at 1700 Kingsley Avenue. The Asbury Park Fire Department [APfd]  responded to the call alerting them of the incident minutes after 7 a.m. […]

Asbury Park firefighters spent more than two hours fully extinguishing a blaze when a tractor trailer filled with laundry from Hospital Services, Inc. [HCSC] caught fire Saturday night while it was parked on Langford Street. The Asbury Park Fire Department received a call Saturday at 10:02 p.m. about a fire that had broken out near […]

Members of Asbury Park’s Office of Emergency Management [OEM] will conduct a brief presentation on the city’s disaster preparedness plan during the workshop session at Wednesday’s city council meeting. Fire Chief Kevin Keddy will lead the presentation, according to City Manager Terence Reidy. Reidy will be on hand to supplement the presentation if necessary, he […]

The memory of Rachel D’Avino, one of the 26 victims gunned down in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, now has a permanent home in Asbury Park. At a dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony Saturday, before the purple ribbon that surrounded the playground on Asbury Park’s 7th Avenue beach was cut, before anyone stepped up […]

Parts of the outdoor walkway around Convention Hall remain closed after a twelve foot by six foot slab of concrete fell on Sunday from the ceiling near the northeast corner of the building, according to Fire Chief Kevin Keddy. The concrete that came loose was four inches thick, Keddy said. “That fell down on the […]

Rachel D’Avino, a victim of the Newtown Connecticut shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, will be forever memorialized in a playground dedicated to her on Asbury Park’s 7th Avenue beach [pictured above]. Fire Chief Kevin Keddy and Leesha Floyd, a program development aide for the city’s recreation department, formally presented details of the project to […]

No events are scheduled at the Convention Hall complex after May 1, and a long-running issue over a requirement to install sprinklers may leave the building closed indefinitely. Closure would affect all areas, including the Grand Arcade [shown above]. The state fire code was changed in 2006 to require public facilities like the Convention Hall […]

Snow is in the forecast for the Asbury Park area, and city officials are preparing for up to 12 inches of accumulation. The National Weather Service predicts four to eight inches of new accumulation over the night, with an additional inch tomorrow morning, with winds up to 29 miles per hour. Other media outlets are […]