Minivan explodes, bursts into flames at 9th & Washington in Hoboken

Shortly after 7pm tonight, a double-parked green minivan “exploded” at 9th & Washington Streets according to eyewitnesses, and burst into flames.

HPD and HFD arrived quickly and doused the fire. All in a day’s work.

But this situation wouldn’t be complete unless we found out this poor driver didn’t have car insurance, and now opportunistic business owners and attention-seekers will now have a fundraiser for this fire as well! We wouldn’t put it past them at this point!

See how the whole thing went down below:

No one brought marshmallows from what I could tell!

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Wedding dress saved in 917 Clinton St. fire in Hoboken, NJ

3/18/2012 Update:

Here’s a nice follow-up to the fire story from ABC7 Eyewitness News:

Click to see original update & photos….

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Local Hoboken business Makeovers hopes to re-open after fire

There’s no doubt that the disruption caused by the fire at 300 Washington Street hurt surrounding businesses, but none more than those that had to close down entirely due to their proximity to the clean-up scene.

Makeovers was one of those places, and owner Peter Sarlo hopes to re-open this week and sent an update letter to the community.

Makeovers extends winter sale due to fire at 300 Washington Street

“Dear Neighbors,

Thank you all for your kind notes and words concerning my salon and store Makeovers. Having been closed due to the fire next door has been frustrating, servicing our community of Hoboken, is very important to us. We consider ourselves extremely fortunate to have survived the fire without any damage. Our hearts and thoughts go out to all of our dear friends who lost everything next door.

Makeovers will reopen this week! We are just waiting to get the okay from the building department.

Due to the interruption of our business, we’re extending our Winter Sale: BUY 1 GET 1 HALF OFF!

I know we are all looking forward to see our beloved Washington street returning with the fun vibrancy it always has.

Thank you all for your continued support!

Peter Sarlo
Owner, Makeovers”

See original story from last week…

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Howard Stern talks about stupid Lepre-Con drunks in Hoboken (again)

Just like last year – radio host Howard Stern once again talked about the drunken antics associated with organized drinking at Hoboken LepreCon.

But just like this event which paled in comparison to parades of the past – Stern only briefly spoke about this year’s “pub crawl” (but read the Hoboken411 Police Blotter again!)

Enjoy!

►► Click to see the FULL Hoboken Police Blotter for Lepre-Con 2012!!

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Video: Garbage Fire at 1450 Washington St. in Hoboken, NJ

Below is raw video of the fire that smelled up the premises at 1450 Washington earlier this evening. HFD did a fine job putting it out. However, do buildings like this only have “active” sprinkler heads when the retail space is complete? Seems like it would have saved some trouble if at least some sprinklers were working. Who knows – maybe they were, but it didn’t look like it from my perspective.

Hoboken battles another fire – 1450 Washington Street

Boy, the Hoboken Fire Department is being kept busy these days! On the heels of the destructive fire at 300 Washington Street, we had another fire break out in the newly constructed Toll Brothers building at 1450 Washington Street.

It appeared to have started in the unoccupied large retail space on the Bloomfield Street side of the building, and was mostly comprised of construction garbage, plastic dumpsters boxes and other debris.

No word on what the cause was – but it looks like no one was hurt. Good job HFD again for managing the situation. Video to follow.

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Demolition at 300 Washington Street in progress

2/22/2012 Update:

Hoboken411 reader Max sent in this photo of workers inside the 300 Washington Street fire scene.

As you know – the “Avenue” has been a traffic headache – and has re-routed NJ Transit Buses.

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