http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-nj--newbrunswickfire0303mar03,0,3539228.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire My kids go to school two blocks from here. There were K9s on the scene. Only traffic aloud in was for the school. All vehicles were checked before entry.
The school dismissed the children for the day at 12:30pm
The Northeast Corridor Line was not running this morning. I just heard the first train go by at 3:00pm.
Fire claims 3 buildings in New Brunswick
March 3, 2004, 9:12 AM EST
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- A fire spread to three buildings and snarled traffic near Rutgers University Wednesday morning, but no injuries were reported.
The four-alarm blaze broke out on Easton Avenue shortly after 6 a.m. More than 100 firefighters were battling the blaze, which began in a building with a ground floor restaurant with apartments above it.
http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20040228/localnews/40569.html 2 transit workers found dead
By DONNA DE LA CRUZ
The Associated Press
NEW YORK -- One of the two NYC Transit Authority supervisors found shot to death Friday in a trailer at the Coney Island rail yard had filed a report last year with police alleging that an employee had spit at him, police sources said.
That employee, who no longer works for the Transit Authority, had apparently been upset over an evaluation that Luigi Sedita had given him, two police sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press.
Police would not comment on whether that employee was involved in the double shooting. They were questioning a man Friday afternoon about the homicides.
Bodies of Sedita, 61, of Staten Island, and Clive Patterson of Far Rockaway, Queens, were found by a security guard at 7:40 a.m. Sedita was shot twice in his torso, and Patterson had gunshot wounds to one hand and his face. Patterson's age was not immediately known, police said.
The two cleaning supervisors were assigned to the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift, and had last been seen at 4:20 a.m., a third police source said.
The two veteran workers had 33 years on the job between them, said NYC Transit President Lawrence G. Reuter.
"The murder this morning of two of our fellow NYC Transit employees at the Coney Island Overhaul Shop is as disturbing as it is shocking," Reuter said in a statement.
Police interviewed about 50 co-workers from the overnight shift as part of their investigation. Transit chaplains and grief counselors were on the scene offering assistance to those workers, Reuter said.
The victims were wearing their blue NYC Transit uniforms, along with hooded sweatshirts and gloves, the second police source said. One was still wearing an orange work vest over his clothes.
The trailer is used as a break room for workers in Coney Island. The bodies were found on the floor, and a radio was still playing, the source said.
The yard is located off the Stillwell Avenue station, the last stop in Brooklyn for several train lines. The yard is heavily secured because of vandalism in the past.
A woman who answered the telephone at Sedita's home said the family was devastated and had no comment. No one answered the telephone at Patterson's home.
There have been a lot of these strange occurrences lately. Glad everything is OK and that there were no chemicals involved in the fire. I was reading the story about the NY transit workers the other day and it certainly is a mystery. The story about the train in France on a bomb timer was disturbing also. Sounds like a clear case of blackmail.