Fire divers conduct water search near 8th Street bridge

Heard on: Bergen NJ Fire-Tac Group Calls

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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Fire Operations and Fire Command: diver one is out of the water.

00:03

We are switching to a state pattern.

00:08

Receive. You're switching to what you were inaudible in the last half.

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We'll be deploying two more divers shortly.

00:19

Receive. Thank you.

00:22

Mac.

00:24

Mac three from twelve truck lieutenant.

00:28

Mac three from twelve truck lieutenant.

00:32

Mac three.

00:35

Okay, if I have communication with our marine unit, they want to know where you want them.

00:42

Have them, they can work up between the 8th street bridge and the wall street bridge.

00:48

Where is it?

00:51

Mac three to twelve marine one.

01:00

70 Sonar to Mac 3.

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70 Sonar to command post.

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Go ahead.

01:12

Just looking for confirmation that we can operate on the opposite shoreline of where the divers are, continuing north.

01:23

I would stay away from there.

01:25

They're out about 70 feet at this point.

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Received.

7/29/2026 06:09 PM

Missing Person

8th St & Wall St, Passaic, NJ 07055

Fire divers conduct water search near 8th Street bridge

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As discussed during the dispatch call, fire and marine crews conduct a possible water search and recovery operation between the 8th Street Bridge and Wall Street Bridge in Passaic, New Jersey, coordinating divers and sonar equipment around 70 feet offshore.

Fire divers conduct water search near 8th Street bridge

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