On the early morning of Jan. 6, a five-alarm fireplace engulfed three buildings on Madison Avenue in Ridgewood, displacing 26 households and 6 children, some as younger as 1 yr outdated, and injuring 5 totally different firefighters who responded to the emergency. In accordance with residents, many have been alerted earlier than alarms went off due to their shouting neighbors, and a few even awoke to search out whole partitions inside their rooms in flames. That neighborly effort has continued, with the Ridgewood group rallying collectively, spurred on by native enterprise homeowners and representatives, to donate over nicely $70,000 to…
