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Trenton firehouse broken into. Third crime targeting firefighters in about two weeks.
On Monday, while engine 1 was away from the fire station on Calhoun Street, someone broke in through a bathroom window, ransacked the firefighters lockers and stole several items.
Yesterday’s burglary closes a month that has seen several criminal acts against firefighters. As firefighters battled a major blaze on Genesee Street that injured four of their own Oct. 15, members of a large crowd that had gathered tried to steal a power cutting device from the back of an engine. They were foiled by firefighters and police.
On Oct. 21, a city teen hurled a large concrete block at firefighters pumping water out of a basement on Kirkbride Avenue. No injuries were reported.