The following are guidelines from Bill Gee of the Ocean County Fire Marshal’s Office: 1. No bottles of beer, whiskey, any alcohol related items or aerosol containers are to be put intothe fire as they can cause an explosion and injure the participants.
2. Please don’t wrap items in foil because they do not burn.
3. Please do not bring plastic containers and/or plastic bags to be thrown into the fire such as ketchup, mustard or other items. Fire Marshal’s may ask to check bags or containers for non – permitted items. These items will fill the containers very fast and not leave enough room for other people’s items. These items should be put into recycling not burned.
4. After placing the Chometz into the fire please move behind the barricades with your children and families so other people can put their Chometz in the fire safely.
5. The fires will start at 7AM. Please be at the sites by 12:00 noon to have your Chometz placed in the fire. The fires will be extinguished at 12:30 PM.
6. Please keep away from the metal containers (ESPECIALLY CHILDREN) as they get HOT over time and could injure them.
7. Please use the Permitted burn sites for Chometz Burning. The Fire Dept will extinguish non – permitted Chometz Burning sites.
8. Please listen to the directions of the Ocean County Fire Marshal’s Personnel and Lakewood Police Crossing Guards at each site for your safety and follow the parking rules. Everyone have a safe Chometz Burning and an enjoyable Passover.
“As always, we ask everyone not to bring and put plastics into the fires, but due to the weather forecast for heavy rain and windy weather for Monday we are asking for everyone’s cooperation in this matter,” says Gee. “The last time rain occurred on a Chometz burning day 2 years ago or so we experienced a lot of items in plastic along with the rain suffocating the fires thus not allowing them to burn properly, creating a lot of smoke, and not burning all of the Chometz. We are asking everyone to please put the plastic bags and other plastic items into the trash or recycling containers at the sites or at home. Also due to the rain if everyone could limit how many items they would like to burn so that all of the items that need to be burned will burn properly by the appropriate time.”
The following is a list of Chometz Burning sites and names of Crossing Guards to be stationed at the sites.
7TH ST. & PRIVATE WAY 8:30 – 12:30 P.M. FLETCHER HALLAMOR
6TH ST. & PRIVATE WAY 8:30 – 12:30 P.M. PAT SALADINO
FOREST AVE. & 6TH ST. 8:30 – 12:30 P.M. JOSE MARTINEZ
FOREST AVE. & 7TH ST. 8:30 – 12:30 P.M. PAT SAMPLE
FOREST AVE. & 9TH ST. 8:30 – 12:30 P.M. MARGARITA RIVERA
FOREST AVE. & 10TH ST. 8:30 – 12:30 P.M. MARY PESANO
FOREST AVE. BETWEEN 10TH & 11TH ST. (DUMPSTERS) 8:30 – 12:30 P.M. VIRGINIA FLOYD
CLIFTON AVE. & 9TH ST. 8:30 – 12:30 P.M. ROY HOFFMAN
CLIFTON AVE. & 10TH ST. 8:30 – 12:30 P.M. EZEQUIEL VICENS
175 SUNSET RD. (SHUL) 8:30 – 12:30 P.M. ANDREW HOWARD
LEXINGTON AVE. & 9TH 8:30 – 12:30 P.M. RAMON LEBRON
LEXINGTON AVE. & 10TH 8:30 – 12:30 P.M. RAISA GOFMAN
BASEBALL FIELD BETWEEN 9TH & 10TH ST. W/FIRE MARSHALL) 8:30 – 12:30 P.M. FRANK HENDERSON
RT. 9 & OAK STREET 8:30 – 12:30 P.M. MARIA FERNANDEZ KELLY PIERCE
OAK ST. SCHOOL DRIVEWAY 8:30 – 12:30 P.M. LINDA ESTELLE JOE FITZGERALD
MADISON AVE. & 5TH ST. (PARKING LOT) 8:30 – 12:30 P.M. ALEX NEGRON
For those of us that have jobs and have to travel far distances, this schedule is really great!
Wow a lot of places to burn chometz
Anything in SW lakewood? (WestGate area)
The article states the fires will start @ 7:30… Will it be 7:30 or 8:30 per the schedule?
what about grand chateau
so where exactly are the fires?
not by rabbi gissinger’s this year?
Can the lakewood scoop please clarify the article states fire will begin at 7. The list however says 8:30?
I think the terez is that the fire will start at 7 and the crossing guards will b there at 830. nuh! what?
can i go to Tent City to catch a good open fire
where will there be a fire starting at7? thank you
#5, Chateu Gran dis not having this year, it has been moved to Oak Street School, as per earlier articles.
#7, 175 Sunset Rd. SHUL is R’ Gissinger
Thank You to the LFD and LPD for being so accomodating and all the crossing guards for keeping us all safe.
make sure all the fires have permission from the property owners not just the fire marshals office
WHAT TIME WILL BE TENT CITY’S !?
fire lready started on Oak Street
no fires anywhere. went to four sites listed above.
So if I make a chometz fire the fire department is going to put it out because I’m breaking the law but in tent city they are allowed to make fires every day if the year ?? There’s a little bit of a double standard here
Went to oak st. The fire marshall was great offered to throw the chometz into the fire for me so i dont get wet. Thank you keep up the great work
How are the fires going with the rain and snow out there
those listed above are just the streets where there are crossing guards.
please leave tent city out of this. they have enough to worry about
can you explain to me why the food wasn’t giving to the needy.