âWe canât cook them fast enough,â fire Capt. Nate Albrecht said.
The outpouring of support from the community for the fundraiser was a âgood problem to have,â but the volume of people totally messed up the departmentâs planned in-and-out strategy, Albrecht said.
He spun negative thoughts on the wait time by saying âthe good news is the food comes out hot.â
âPeople need to realize, weâre not potato pancake experts. Weâre firefighters first,â Albrecht, 27, said.
In addition to potato pancakes, the department cooked up haluski, New England clam chowder and pasta with broccoli.
Wayne Williams, 79, of Dallas, bought one of each.
One Bayonne resident displaced due to brief one-alarm fire, deputy chief says
Photo courtesy of the Bayonne Office of Emergency Management.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
At 12:58 p.m. today, the Bayonne Fire Department was dispatched to 155 W 29th Street for a reported fire. Arriving units found fire in an apartment on the 2nd floor of the three-story, multi-unit apartment building, Bartos said in a statement.
Firefighters used a hand line to extinguish the blaze within minutes of their arrival. One tenant was treated for minor smoke inhalation on the scene by McCabe Ambulance and refused further treatment.
A fire investigation is being conducted, however, the blaze does not appear to be suspicious in nature. The Bayonne Building Department responded and deemed that one apartment would be temporarily uninhabitable.