A video of the meeting shows Teaneck Mayor Mike Pagan repeatedly asking Layla Graham, 32, to stop playing an alarm so the township council could conduct the "township's business."
The fire broke out just after midnight in the house on Palisades Avenue trapping three people in the basement, according to Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella.
A New Jersey man is now also accused of speeding in the moments leading up to a drunken crash that killed two passengers in the vehicle with him, according to authorities.
Sexual assault charges against Shalom “Sal” Yehudiel were dropped Monday by a Bergen County judge but new charges in a separate case were filed on Tuesday.
A 15-year-old girl swimming off the Sylvania Avenue beach in Avon-by-the-Sea around 8:35 a.m. ran into problems. Her 39-year-father from Teaneck went in after her and was swept under.
Raeshonn Corbo, of Teaneck, faces aggravated manslaughter and other charges three years after bringing both weeks-old twins to the hospital. One of the babies died. The father is already awaiting trial.