Wednesday’s conflagration was the second house fire to kill a young girl in Newark in the past six months. Two girls, ages 8 and 6, were killed when a similar blaze erupted on Oct. 20 in the city.

The National Transportation Safety Board blasted Newark fire officials Tuesday for their response to the July 2023 shipboard fire at Port Newark that killed two of their own in a tragedy it said ...

NTSB boss Jennifer Homendy accused the Newark Fire Department of having a “failure of leadership” after a cargo ship fire killed two firefighters in July 2023.