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HEROES: Trapped Victim Rescued, Rushed To HUMC After Collapse At East Rutherford Site HEROES: Trapped Victim Rescued, Rushed To HUMC After Collapse At East Rutherford Site
Heroes: Trapped Victim Rescued, Rushed To Humc After Collapse At East Rutherford Site UPDATE: Firefighters rescued a trapped worker after a foundation wall collapsed at an East Rutherford construction site on Saturday. The wall gave way at a renovation project for a new restaurant on the Union Avenue site of the former Railroad Cafe -- pinning the worker from the waist down -- around 1:30 p.m. Oct. 28. Members of Hackensack Fire Department Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) Rescue along with colleagues from several UASI departments worked together to free the trapped worker. Police in neighboring towns up the line closed intersections on northbound Route 17 as an ambula…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
NJ House Explosion: Search-And-Rescue Operation Saves Family Members, Friends (UPDATE) NJ House Explosion: Search-And-Rescue Operation Saves Family Members, Friends (UPDATE)
NJ House Explosion: Search-And-Rescue Operation Saves Family Members, Friends (Update) HEROES: Everyone feared the worst. Yet if there’s a silver lining to be found in a devastating house explosion in West Milford on Friday, it’s that rescuers got those involved out alive. That includes a victim who was trapped for nearly an hour as firefighters tunneled their way into the leveled single-story ranch house. Five of those injured were airlifted to area hospitals following the dramatic search and rescue operation. A sixth declined further medical attention at the scene. Investigations continued combing through the wreckage well past daybreak as they try to determine what cause…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Mysterious Upturned Boat Found At Base Of Paterson Great Falls (VIDEO) Mysterious Upturned Boat Found At Base Of Paterson Great Falls (VIDEO)
Mysterious Upturned Boat Found At Base Of Paterson Great Falls (Video) How did a jon boat end up at the base of Paterson Great Falls? That's the question local authorities were trying to solve Thursday morning. Firefighters responding to the scene found the 12- to- 14-foot boat with a small engine at the base of the falls, the city's public safety director Jerry Speziale told NJ.com. There was also some debris in the water, initial reports say. Paterson Rescue member Michael Scherer was driving by the scene on his day off when he spotted his guy working to recover the boat, he said in an Instagram post. All boats in the water had been accounted for, and the…

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by Cecilia Levine