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Life Without NJ DPW Worker Struck By Lightning Is 'Unimaginable' Life Without NJ DPW Worker Struck By Lightning Is 'Unimaginable'
Life Without NJ DPW Worker Struck By Lightning Is 'Unimaginable' There's been an outpouring of support for a Woodbridge Department of Public Works employee struck by lightning this week. Eric Baumgartner survived the strike after a Woodbridge police officer performed life-saving CPR. Baumgartner was painting lines for the soccer field at Iselin Middle School on Wednesday, June 14, and didn't hear anything over the loud noise of the machine he was using when the lightning strike came down, a GoFundMe page says. Eric was unresponsive and had no pulse when Woodbridge Police Officer RJ McPartland revived him. In Eric’s words, "He thought he was dying …

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
Woman Who Ran Back Inside Burning West Orange Home To Save Cats Dies Woman Who Ran Back Inside Burning West Orange Home To Save Cats Dies
Woman Who Ran Back Inside Burning West Orange Home To Save Cats Dies A 66-year-old woman died in a weekend fire in West Orange, authorities said. Cynthia Johnson ran back inside her home on Valley Way to try to save her cats as the house burned around 4:30 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 20, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II said. Johnson was transported to St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston where she was pronounced dead at 1 p.m. that day. The cause and origin of the fire are under investigation.

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
West Milford Firefighters Rescue Unconscious Woman In Second-Story Blaze West Milford Firefighters Rescue Unconscious Woman In Second-Story Blaze
West Milford Firefighters Rescue Unconscious Woman In Second-Story Blaze West Milford firefighters rescued a woman from a burning second-floor apartment above a strip mall overnight. Flames shot from the windows of the building on Greenwood Lake Turnpike as firefighters – alerted by neighbors -- dashed in, found the middle-aged woman unconscious on the kitchen floor and brought her to safety around 2 a.m., Fire Chief Michael Blondin said. EMS began CPR before an ambulance brought the woman to nearby Greenwood Lake Airport, Blondin said. AirMed One flew her from there to St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston, the chief said. Meanwhile, firefighters quickly brought…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Passaic County Extradition Hearings Set For 6 In Brutal NYC Stabbing Death Passaic County Extradition Hearings Set For 6 In Brutal NYC Stabbing Death
Passaic County Extradition Hearings Set For 6 In Brutal NYC Stabbing Death An extradition hearing was scheduled Tuesday for six suspects captured in Paterson in connection with the mistaken-identity stabbing death of a 15-year-old boy in the Bronx. Video shows five reupted members of the Dominican Trinitarios gang – one with a large knife -- dragging Lesandro "Junior" Guzman-Feliz out of a bodega on East 183rd Street and hacking him late Tuesday night. He made it to St. Barnabas Hospital but died after being repeatedly stabbed, including in the neck, the NYPD said. They also said the attackers got the wrong person: They thought he was someone recorded h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Off-Duty Wayne Police Recruit, Fiancée Rescue Owner Whose Boat Caught Fire Off-Duty Wayne Police Recruit, Fiancée Rescue Owner Whose Boat Caught Fire
Off-Duty Wayne Police Recruit, Fiancée Rescue Owner Whose Boat Caught Fire An off-duty Wayne police recruit and his fiancée rescued a homeowner who was severely burned when his boat caught fire, authorities said. The Alps Road victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston after trying to douse the 10:30 a.m. fire himself on Thursday, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Township police recruit Al-Raheem Thomas was traveling on Alps Road with his fiancée -- Unique Zapata, who's a member of the Wayne Memorial Volunteer First Aid Squad -- when they spotted smoke, Martin said. Thomas pulled over, ran to the back of the house and found the boat ablaze, the …

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by Jerry DeMarco