Tag: Kendall Park First Aid Squad

  • Firefighters mourn loss of one of their own

    Firefighters mourn loss of one of their own

    While conducting a drill at the Middlesex County Fire Academy in Sayreville, Dennis Shennard, a member of the Kingston Volunteer Fire Co. No. 1, suffered a medical episode. Shennard received immediate treatment at the scene on June 26 by fellow firefighters and the Kendall Park First Aid Squad and was transported to Raritan Bay Medical…

  • South Brunswick residents sickened by carbon monoxide from generators too close to home

    South Brunswick residents sickened by carbon monoxide from generators too close to home

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Officers were dispatched to a Robin Road home for a woman possibly having a heart attack around 10:55 p.m. Aug. 4. Officers Matthew Hagood and Tyler Harpster arrived to find the 61-year-old woman and her 9-year-old granddaughter in the residence. The officers soon realized that the woman was not suffering a heart…

  • Man at South Brunswick McDonald’s allegedly had 94 folds of heroin

    Man at South Brunswick McDonald’s allegedly had 94 folds of heroin

        SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A 33-year-old male from North Brunswick was allegedly found in possession of 94 folds of heroin while inside McDonald’s on Route 1 in South Brunswick. On June 1 at 1:57 p.m., a witness reported a disorderly male inside of the McDonald’s, according to information provided by the South Brunswick Police…

  • Fire destroys second South Brunswick home in a week

    Fire destroys second South Brunswick home in a week

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – For the second time in a week, fire has destroyed a home of a South Brunswick family. South Brunswick police received a 911 call from a passing motorist reporting a house on fire on Anderson Way around 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 30. Monmouth Junction Fire Chief Scott Smith arrived in the development…

  • Cell phone charger possibly started fire that destroyed home on Fresh Ponds Road

    Cell phone charger possibly started fire that destroyed home on Fresh Ponds Road

     SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A South Brunswick family escaped a two-alarm fire that destroyed their Fresh Ponds Road home on Jan. 23. At 5:35 p.m., a 911 caller reported that a fire started after a cell phone was charging in a power strip in the basement of the single family home, according to information provided by…

  • Kendall Park resident charged with attempted murder of elderly man

    Kendall Park resident charged with attempted murder of elderly man

    A resident of the Kendall Park section of South Brunswick has been charged with attempted murder for an incident against an elderly man. South Brunswick police responded to a Holder Road home in Kendall Park for a report of an injured elderly male at 8:05 a.m. on Feb. 4. Police found the victim in the…

  • Snow joke: alleged thief saved by police reportedly commits another crime

    Snow joke: alleged thief saved by police reportedly commits another crime

      By JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Officers saved a man from hypothermia after he allegedly broke into a liquor store and hid from police in the snow. Police responded to Viking Buy-Rite Wine and Liquor at 4095 Route 1 around 1:45 a.m. on Feb. 10. Officers observed the front door of the…

  • Georgia man fatally injured by tractor trailer

    Georgia man fatally injured by tractor trailer

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A 29-year-old man from Georgia was killed in a collision on Route 1 on Nov. 8. An investigation by officers from the South Brunswick Police Department Traffic Safety Bureau and detectives from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office determined that at 9:22 p.m., a 2005 Volvo tractor trailer, driven by Nohemi Farfan, 45, of…

  • South Brunswick police officers save two lives in one day

    South Brunswick police officers save two lives in one day

      SOUTH BRUNSWICK – In a 10-hour period on Oct. 14, South Brunswick police officers saved two heroin overdose victims. Just after 11 a.m., police received a 911 call from a woman who said her boyfriend was unconscious in a vehicle in the East Garden Apartment Complex, according to information provided by Captain James Ryan of…