NFD: Store flammable liquids properly

Winter is close to being over and, it’s time to get your home ready for the warmer months. Nutley Commissioner Carmen A. Orechio, director of Public Safety, suggests taking a good look around your home. There’s a strong chance flammable materials are lurking in many areas. It’s important to store and use them properly [...]

Tips for keeping your home burn resistant

For the 23rd consecutive year, the first full week in February has been designated as Burn Awareness Week — the week that begins a year-long effort to reduce the nation’s staggering burn problem and to promote public awareness of available burn-care facilities and rehabilitation services.
The following is a “Top Ten List” that will make your [...]

‘Cat hoarder’ charged with 600 animal-cruelty counts

The NJSPCA has filed 600 counts of animal cruelty against Andrea Fera, of Nutley, who is believed to have hoarded 100 cats in her home in Nutley. Her home, at 82 McKinley St., caught fire early this month, and 34 cats died in the blaze. Fera had been instructed not to have more than six [...]

Where did all the cats come from?

This was certainly an interesting week. Nothing was more bizarre, though, than the fire at 82 McKinley St. in Nutley early Wednesday morning.
Ironically, I already had an appointment at the Nutley Fire Department with Deputy Chief Fred Scalera. He and I were to be working on a story about the department’s HAZ-MAT and Arson units. [...]

Cat-fire update: 34 of 85 cats dead

Of the 85 cats found at a Wednesday fire at 82 McKinley St. in Nutley, fire Lt. David Wilson now says 34 have died, 51 were rescued and an unknown number escaped while firefighters put out the fire. A Perfect World Cat Rescue and the Bloomfield-Bukowski Animal Shelter now have the living cats.

Cat-fire update: 85 cats were in house

There were at least 85 cats living in a house that caught fire Wednesday at 82 McKinley St., Nutley, according to Nutley Fire Lt. David Wilson. Initial reports indicated there were 50 cats living in the house — 10 of which perished. However, after further investigation, Wilson says the final count ended up at 85. [...]

Fire kills 10 cats in Nutley

NUTLEY — Ten cats were killed and *40 others were rescued from a house that caught fire in Nutley early this morning, Deputy Fire Chief Fred Scalera said this afternoon. Firefighters were called to the home at 82 McKinley St. after a neighbor noticed smoke coming from a second-floor window and called them, he said. [...]

Fire rips through Nutley home

NUTLEY — A two-alarm fire ripped through a home here Friday afternoon at 80 North Road. The home was empty when the fire broke out. Neighbors, who called 911 a little before 12:30 p.m., say some of the residents were away in Florida, while others were at work, at the time of the fire. There [...]