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John Paul Gryckiewicz (1918–2006) served 40 years with the Camden Fire Department, rising to captain of Engine Company 6, and was decorated for heroism in multiple rescues. A World War II Navy veteran, he served as a chief machinist mate aboard the Camden-built USS South Dakota.
Thirty-Sixth Street runs from the Delaware River south, across River Road, to Federal Street, and forms Camden's northern border with Pennsauken Township at intervals along its length. It became part of Camden when Stockton Township was annexed in 1899, and had been known in Pennsauken as Cove Avenue into the 1890s.
Nineteenth Street runs from the Pavonia railroad switching yards across River Avenue north to Harrison Avenue in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, New Jersey.
Death notice for John Paul Gryckiewicz, 87, formerly of Camden, who died June 4, 2006 in New Port Richey, Florida; a retired Camden fire captain of 40 years and a WWII Navy veteran of the USS South Dakota.
Death notice for Mary M. Gryckiewicz, 82, of New Port Richey, Florida, formerly of Camden, who died November 7, 2005; wife of retired Camden fire captain John P. Gryckiewicz.
John and Mary Gryckiewicz, formerly of Camden, marked their 50th wedding anniversary in August 1992 with a party at the Innisbrook Country Club in Tarpon Springs, Florida, hosted by their six children.
On the eve of his March 1980 retirement dinner, Camden fire captain John P. Gryckiewicz looked back on 40 years with the department — the rescues, the Garden State Race Track fire, 84-hour weeks and $60 paychecks, and a city he still loved.
Mrs. Girlene Garrett and her six children escaped a two-alarm fire that gutted their home at 832 North 3rd Street in August 1968; Acting Battalion Chief John Gryckiewicz and Hoseman Edmund Gorczynski were treated at Cooper Hospital for burns.
The Delaware Valley Fire Buffs Association gave Camden fire captain John Gryckiewicz a special citation and a $25 savings bond in September 1966 for his rescue of Mrs. Emily Burns from a burning North Camden bedroom, his second honor that year.
Fire Capt. John Gryckiewicz of Engine Company 6 carried Mrs. Emily Burns, a 40-year-old multiple sclerosis patient, from her burning second-floor apartment at 602 North 2nd Street in February 1965, after two civilian rescue attempts failed.
A Courier-Post account of a Pearl Street fire in which Capt. John Gryckiewicz carried a resident to safety; District Chief Howard Gick described the blaze.
After 10-year-old Robert Allebach of 533 Bailey Street drowned falling from a raft in the Delaware River, North Camden neighbors petitioned the city in February 1950 to build a fence along the riverfront between Seventh and Eighth streets.
Rookie Camden fireman John Gryckiewicz, five weeks on the job, pulled a burning rope from around a 50-gallon gasoline drum aboard the tug Pacific at the American Dredging Company docks in December 1940, preventing an explosion.
Camden Public Safety Commissioner Mary W. Kobus announced in December 1940 that her appointment of 22 patrolmen and 10 firemen had restored the public safety department to 1938 strength, and said she would seek money for more officers because of defense needs; John Gryckiewicz of 810 North Front Street was among the fire appointees.
Commissioner Mary W. Kobus announced the appointment of three Camden policemen and four firemen in November 1940; among the new firefighters was John Gryckiewicz of 810 North Front Street.