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Fire alarm activates at Home Depot garden center, Clifton NJ

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Fire & Arson

Reported: 12/10/2025 02:59 PM

Bloomfield Ave, Clifton, NJ 07012

A fire alarm was activated at the Home Depot garden center on Route 46 in Clifton, NJ. Fire crews responded and found water flow inside the building. They shut off a broken valve and are investigating for any additional leaks.

Audio|Heard on: Totowa Police, Fire and EMS

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02:24

Transcript:

00:00

Total police do you, Totowa Fire, activated fire alarm,

00:03

home depot, garden center, water flow, Totowa Fire,

00:07

activated fire flow, Totowa Fire alarm, home depot, garden center water flow.

00:16

Card 24 is responding.

00:25

Car 23 is responding to Home Depot.

00:40

3-1, over your responding, Charlie.

00:44

10-4[1]-0-thand-a-Matic.

00:46

1-11, I'll be out.

00:54

10-4[1].

00:58

Nick, total first aid squad and ALS responding.

01:03

10-4[1]. 10-4.

01:10

R24 is on scene for the two and a half story commercial building.

01:15

I'm an alarm sounding.

01:17

I'll be established in command.

01:20

Thank you.

01:29

AOS 704 for the wall.

01:31

We're responding to a landing gurging care on Route 46.

01:34

Coming out of Patterson.

01:37

104.

01:44

I didn't know what 23, you know where the risers are?

01:53

We got them coming in, hold on.

01:57

They were able to shot one of the valves off, so there's no water leaking, but we gotta check the other zones.

02:12

24 when you got there?

02:17

One of the valves that broke, but there is a shutoff, so they were able to shut it off,

02:21

just investigating, see if there's anything else leaking.

Police codes explained

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[1]

10-4: Acknowledgment (Affirmative)

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Bloomfield Ave, Clifton, NJ 07012

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