{"id":742101,"date":"2026-07-04T03:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/742101\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T03:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:55:17","slug":"storm-wreaks-havoc-in-south-orange-maplewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/742101\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Wreaks Havoc in South Orange, Maplewood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fast-moving storm raged through parts of New Jersey \u2014 including Maplewood and South Orange \u2014 on Friday evening, July 3, causing power outages, property damage and hazardous driving conditions with trees and large branches down.<\/p>\n<p>See PSE&amp;G\u2019s outage map here: <a href=\"https:\/\/outagecenter.pseg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/outagecenter.pseg.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have lost track of how many calls as of this time,\u201d South Essex Fire Chief Joseph Alvarez told Village Green at 9:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The damage appeared to be more severe in South Orange than Maplewood, with trees reported down in the historic Montrose neighborhood and the PSE&amp;G outage map showing a higher number of outages throughout the Village.<\/p>\n<p>Being an elected official provided no refuge: South Orange Village Councilwoman Hannah Zollman suffered the loss of a car, a fence and a pergula. A second family car is trapped in the garage due to the downed tree bending the garage door. Zollman has canceled her 4th of July plans, but said, \u201cWe are physically safe. So that\u2019s okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zollman shared video of the tree falling on her car and backyard:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>From Hannah Zollman:<\/p>\n<p>The storm was followed by a stunning double rainbow and a fiery sunset:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164552\" class=\"size-full wp-image-164552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FullSizeRender-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-164552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Orange, NJ. July 3, 2026. Photo by Laura Griffin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fast-moving storm raged through parts of New Jersey \u2014 including Maplewood and South Orange \u2014 on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-742101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}