Wind Blamed for Sparking Jersey City Fire

[SpyderVash]

I'm sorry but I don't have room for them at the moment, I usually recommend selling them on ebay.  If you post them as "a lot" usually some parents will buy them for their kids to start their collection.

I hope that helps

[NON]

Thanks anything you need just let me know, I'll pick it all up ahead of time and have it all ready to go by the time you get here, or deliver it =)

Hey man, do you buy old comics, too? I have a bunch of old X-men comics from the 80's and early 90's locked up in a foot locker someplace.

[SpyderVash]

Thanks anything you need just let me know, I'll pick it all up ahead of time and have it all ready to go by the time you get here, or deliver it =)

[shahaggy]

good luck in your new location, hopefully I'll get some holiday shopping done in your shop.

[SpyderVash]

Hey everyone just letting you know that I'm back up and running but have relocated a few blocks away.  It's probably going to take at least 6 months to fix the old store.

I want to say thanks to EVERYONE!!! who helped whether it was with info I needed, a good word and even just the offer of assistance.

Alot of my customers live closer to the new location and the rest just walk over.  So it hasn't been that much of an inconvenience.  So anything you need you know how to find me.

Thanks,

Floyd...your Friendly Neighborhood SpyderVash (I always wanted to say that)

FJB Comics & Games
17 Coles St
JC, NJ 07302
12p-7p everyday
201-946-2200

Between Newark Ave & Columbus, 1 Block from Jersey Ave, right next to Hudson County Art Supply

[jc_insomniac]

This is a really fire-prone kind of city.

Bite your tongue, woman.

Anyway, I found out that JCFD arrived very quickly, and PSE&G arrived in 45 minutes, which apparently is pretty good, considering the number of down wires that day.

[alb]

Unfortunately, Floyd's store and inventory were completely soaked and the whole building needs to be rewired. Thankfully no one was hurt. I hope he'll be back in business soon enough.

Poor Floyd's. That's a really great store.

Anyhow: what really struck me about Jersey City is  that the fire department and the schools take fire education incredibly seriously. When my child was 2, she was getting visits from the fire department at her preschool and bringing home fire education cubes. She's now collected about 4 of those cubes.

I think the moral is that, if you're building or renovating here, and the fire department is a pain in the neck, there's a reason for that. This is a really fire-prone kind of city.

[jc_insomniac]

Unfortunately, Floyd's store and inventory were completely soaked and the whole building needs to be rewired. Thankfully no one was hurt. I hope he'll be back in business soon enough.

Glad to hear no one was hurt and that Floyd is apparently going right back to business.

Winds blamed for sparking Jersey City fire

by Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal Saturday October 25, 2008, 8:20 PM

Today's gusty winds are being blamed for setting a fire on York Street in Downtown Jersey City just before 5 this afternoon by pushing tree limbs into electrical lines that sent sparks into the second floor of a building.

"I was outside making a phone call when I saw the wind blow over the tree and hit the electric lines straight into the building. That's pretty much when I called 911," Floyd Bennett, owner of FJB Comic Books and Video Games on the first floor of the affected building.

He said that he went back inside the store right away to get two customers out.

A firefighter was "shocked but it was minor, he is back on duty," Deputy Fire Chief Tim Kearny said.

He said the apartment on the second floor was empty at the time of the fire.

According to Bennett, the landlord lives upstairs but he had left "about two hours ago. I had called to make sure he wasn't still up there but he had left already."

Bennett said that he will probably be open tomorrow adding, "It's just a little water damage."

[duke_of_earl]

That witness can't possibly be credible!

Good to hear Mr. Bennett and company are safe.

duke

[bdlaw]

Glad to hear no one was hurt and that Floyd is apparently going right back to business.

Winds blamed for sparking Jersey City fire

by Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal Saturday October 25, 2008, 8:20 PM

Today's gusty winds are being blamed for setting a fire on York Street in Downtown Jersey City just before 5 this afternoon by pushing tree limbs into electrical lines that sent sparks into the second floor of a building.

"I was outside making a phone call when I saw the wind blow over the tree and hit the electric lines straight into the building. That's pretty much when I called 911," Floyd Bennett, owner of FJB Comic Books and Video Games on the first floor of the affected building.

He said that he went back inside the store right away to get two customers out.

A firefighter was "shocked but it was minor, he is back on duty," Deputy Fire Chief Tim Kearny said.

He said the apartment on the second floor was empty at the time of the fire.

According to Bennett, the landlord lives upstairs but he had left "about two hours ago. I had called to make sure he wasn't still up there but he had left already."

Bennett said that he will probably be open tomorrow adding, "It's just a little water damage."

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