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Thursday, nov 28
Police & Fire
Head Injury Victim Who Fell Down Ramapo Reservation Ravine Airlifted To Hospital
A medical chopper was called for a 61-year-old hiker from Mahwah who responders said was seriously injured when he fell down a ravine at the Ramapo Reservation early Wednesday evening. The hiker was on a trail when "he lost his balance and fell back into a ravine, striking his head on a rock," Sgt. Michael Blondin said. Police officers found the man bleeding profusely from the head, Blondin said. He was conscious when Mahwah EMS put him into the ambulance, the sergeant said. He was transported to Continental Soldiers Field, where Mahwah Fire Companies 2 and 4 set up a landing zone f…
Police & Fire
Dive Teams Try To Retrieve Man's Body From Passaic River
Authorities Monday morning were resuming efforts to retrieve a body in the Passaic River between Wallington and Passaic. It was immediately unclear whether it could possibly be a man who Garfield police were told jumped from a bridge over the river the night before. Members of the Wallington Fire Department Emergency Squad were out on a drill Sunday when a sonar camera spotted what they later said appeared to be a body. It surfaced near Gregory Avenue after backups from Lyndhurst, Oradell, Mahwah and Passaic arrived. The rough current eventually forced them to call off the recovery unt…
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! Search Team Finds Hopatcong Man Reported Missing By Wife
UPDATE: A search-and-rescue team that numbered in the dozens on Saturday found a 34-year-old Hopatcong man whose wife reported him missing the night before. Kevin Fawthrop was hospitalized for hypothermia after members of the Ramapo Search and Rescue Team and co-workers from Blue Diamond Waste Removal found him in a heavily wooded area about a mile and a half from his home, responders said. "He was confused, disoriented and hypothermia had set in," Hopatcong police said. Also participating in the five-square-mile search were Hopatcong police and firefighters, Jefferson firefighters, the Su…
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Rescuers Pluck Trio Off Palisades Overnight In Ice, Snow
Responders from various agencies braved the elements to rescue three people – at least one of whom was reportedly drunk – from the Palisades before dawn Saturday. The Closter Volunteer Ambulance and Rescue Corps, Alpine firefighters and Palisades Interstate Parkway police fought icy conditions to get the trio safely off the cliffs near the State Line Lookout in Alpine, near the Rockland County border, just after midnight. A Stokes basket was requested to carry one of the hikers up the side of the cliff. "Responders working a rescue on the Palisades cliffs on a sunny spring day can be dange…
Police & Fire
Searchers Recover Body Of Hackensack Swimmer Who Drowned In River
Searchers Tuesday afternoon recovered the body of Jose Cortez from the Hackensack River, whose friends told police he drowned while trying to swim across to Bogota. The 39-year-old's body was recovered from behind the Costco just before 3 p.m. -- 48 hours after he went under -- and was being removed. Searchers pinpointed it early Monday evening but were unable to retrieve it due to the current. "Between the tide and the darkness [they] just couldn’t get him -- it’s all muck," one responder said. They waited until the 2:30 p.m. low tide, then were able to retrieve the body. Friends told p…
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Search Continues For Swimmer, 39, Believed Drowned In Hackensack River
Authorities continued to search the Hackensack River Monday afternoon for the body of a 39-year-old man whose friends told police drowned while trying to swim across to Bogota. The man "began struggling to remain above water [but] disappeared below the surface" around 3 p.m. Sunday, Capt. Frank Aquila said. His friends searched with no luck, Aquila said. Police were finally notified by the man's nephew after he failed to return home, the captain said. Hackensack police and firefighters were joined in a subsequent search by Bogota police, a Maywood police bloodhound, a Ridgefield Park…
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West Milford Body ID'd As Woman Missing After Car Crash
West Milford police on Wednesday confirmed that a body found in the township over the weekend was that of a 29-year-old woman who went missing after a crash nearby. The body was found Saturday “in heavy brush” near where Stephanie Bronaugh of Lafayette went missing on July 1, Detective Sgt. Joseph Walker said. "Clothing matching the description of the missing adult female were discovered with the remains," Walker initially said. On Wednesday, he wrote: "No foul play is suspected and the manner and cause of death are still pending." A medical examiner was conducting an…
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Body Of Postal Worker From Lyndhurst, 51, Pulled From Passaic River
LYNDHURST, N.J. – (UPDATE) The body of a postal worker from Lyndhurst who went missing more than three weeks ago was pulled Friday from the Passaic River in South Kearny. https://lyndhurst.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/body-of-missing-postal-worker-from-lyndhurst-found-in-passaic-river/736660/ ****** PREVIOUS STORY: Divers searched the Passaic River for 51-year-old Vitorino Cirne, with no results, after his car was found nearby (SEE: Passaic River Search For Missing Lyndhurst Man Called Off). Cirne is 5-foot-7 and 150 pounds, with brown eyes, brown and gray hair and a fair complexion, Lyndh…
Police & Fire
Passaic River Search For Missing Lyndhurst Man Called Off
LYNDHURST, N.J. -- (UPDATE) Authorities called off a Passaic River search for a missing Lyndhurst man early Friday evening. Vitoria Cirne is 5-foot-7 and 150 pounds, with brown eyes, brown and gray hair and a fair complexion, Lyndhurst Police Chief James O’Connor said Monday. He was last seen wearing blue lounge pants and a black Adidas zippered front jacket with white stripes on the sleeves, the chief said. Cirne, who works for the U.S. Postal Service in Kearny, drove off from his home sometime between 1:30-6 a.m. on Thursday and hadn’t been seen since, O’Connor said. Anyone who sees or …
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Maywood Bloodhound Finds Missing NYE's Party Guest Huddled At Hillsdale ATM
MAYWOOD, N.J. -- Maywood's new superstar bloodhound found a missing man huddled from the cold and trying to find warmth in a Hillsdale bank vestibule after he'd wandered off from a New Year's Eve celebration without a coat. Officer Chris Nichols and his year-old tracker, "Remi," were summoned five hours after the Pennsylvania man left a New Year's restaurant celebration in the middle of the frigid night without his belongings. Remington took the scent from the man's jacket, then led Nichols about a half-mile to the ATM at a local bank a half-mile away. There, police found the fre…
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