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A pair of firefighters killed battling a blaze aboard a ship at Port Newark last summer were honored Tuesday with the renaming of two firehouses in their memory. The latest tribute to Newark Fire Division Captains Augusto Acabou and Wayne Brooks Jr. comes just over a year after their deaths on July 5, 2023, aboard the Grande Costa D’Avorio, a cargo ship bound for Africa loaded with 1,200 junked cars and trucks. Newark City Council Member Louise Scott-Roundtree, a Baptist minister, spoke at the rededication of the Engine 27/Ladder 4 firehouse on Elm Road to Brooks. “We rededicate this building …

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