Editing Lyndhurst, New Jersey (section)

===Kingsland explosion===
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On January 11, 1917, a fire started in Building 30 of the Canadian Car and Foundry Company, in what is now Lyndhurst, in a plant that was producing munitions for sale to the United Kingdom and the [[Russian Empire]] during World War I. After a spill of flammable liquid started a fire in a building where shells were cleaned, about 500,000, three-inch (76&nbsp;mm) explosive shells were discharged in about four hours, destroying the entire facility.<ref>[http://www.lyndhursthistoricalsociety.org/KingslandExplosion.html The Kingsland Explosion], Lyndhurst Historical Society. Accessed September 6, 2011.</ref> It was said to have been a spectacle more magnificent than the explosion at [[Black Tom explosion|Black Tom]] in [[Jersey City, New Jersey]].

Tessie McNamara, who operated the company switchboard, was credited with saving 1,400 lives, contacting each of the buildings and shouting the warning, "Get out or go up!" Thanks to her dedication, no one was killed in the fire.<ref>Staff. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121107223625/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/710467882.html?dids=710467882:710467882&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Jan+14,+1917&author=&pub=Boston+Daily+Globe&desc=TESSIE+NOW+THE+HELLO+HEROINE&pqatl=google "Tessie Now the Telephone Heroine: Saved Thousands of Lives at Kingsland Explosion Phone Girl in Munitions Plant Plugged Warnings Under Fire"], ''[[Boston Globe]]'', January 14, 1917. Accessed September 6, 2011.</ref> The Lyndhurst Historical Society has created a vest pocket park dedicated to the memory of McNamara.<ref>[http://www.lyndhursthistoricalsociety.org/90thAnniversary.html 90th Anniversary of the Kingsland Explosion], Lyndhurst Historical Society. Accessed October 13, 2013.</ref> The park is located on Clay Avenue, between Valley Brook Avenue and Wall Street West. The brick stack{{clarify|date=December 2018}} can be seen from this park.