Tanker Truck Fire, 1 Fatality: Elizabeth, NJ 1.24.12

A gasoline tanker, carrying 8,500 gallons of fuel, exploded after a car collided into it causing a fiery blaze at 1:45 a.m. early Tuesday morning in Elizabeth, NJ at the intersection of Bayway Avenue.

The car wedged underneath the burning gasoline tanker, trapping the driver inside the vehicle.

The driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene, and the tanker truck driver escaped the burning truck without serious injury

Cause of the crash remains under investigation

Along with News video, here's video footage provided by Ed Gray, allhandsgoingtowork on YouTube, of the fire ground operations...

View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com.

(The usual disclaimers: I am not a journalist; This is a blog that expresses an outlook and is not conclusive in any shape or manner.)

Videos of Working Fire - Newark, NJ - 01.06.12

Here is some YouTube video footage of a working fire that occurred last week on Friday, 6 Jan 2012, at 222 North & 6th Street, Newark New Jersey. Ed Gray, known as allhandsgoingtowork on YouTube recorded this video footage of firefighters working on the fireground operations.

(The usual disclaimers: I am not a journalist; This is a blog that expresses an outlook and is not conclusive in any shape or manner.)

Videos of 3-Alarm Fire in Manhattan NY 01.03.12

YouTube video footage of a three-alarm fire that occurred earlier this week on Tuesday, 3 Jan 2012 at 11:00 p.m., that Ed Gray, known as allhandsgoingtowork on YouTube, recently posted. Temperatures were in the teen for this fire that consumed the building at 4945 Broadway. About 138 NYFD firefighters brought the fire under control around 3a.m. early Wednesday morning. There were sources that told the New York Daily News that the cause of was “illegal nighttime welding,” but according to the NYFD the investigation is ongoing.

Here's a My Fox New York video of the fireground the next morning with neighborhood reactions...

More Than 100 Firefighters Battle Inwood Blaze: MyFoxNY.com

(The usual disclaimers: I am not a journalist; This is a blog that expresses an outlook and is not conclusive in any shape or manner.)