Crime & Safety
Cops: 3 Firefighters Out of Hospital After Inferno
Shawn Pond, Jesse Ioffredo and Henry Sardina each received care for heat exhaustion after battling boathouse blaze.

The three Hopatcong firefighters who were taken to the hospital following , Hopatcong police Lt. Thomas Kmetz said.
Shawn Pond, Jesse Ioffredo and Henry Sardina each were treated for heat exhaustion after helping extinguish the 19 Elba Ave. blaze, which , according to residents.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation by Hopatcong police Detective Mike Luciani, detectives Paul Mueller and Doug Porter of the Sussex County Prosecutor's Office and Hopatcong Fire Marshal Richard Cook, police said.
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Nobody was killed in the fire. Homeowner Ivan Dressner was in New York at the time of the inferno, which was reported to authorities by multiple boaters, police said.
The living quarters above the boathouse were destroyed, police said. Of the two boats inside the boathouse, one was damaged while the other could still float another day, police said.
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A Hopatcong police officer watched over the charred remains of the boathouse until the morning, Kmetz said.
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