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: Fairview Police Officers Waste No Time After 13-Month-Old Infant Ingests Fentanyl
UPDATE: A trio of Fairview police officers weren't about to wait for an ambulance after a 1-year-old girl who'd ingested fentanyl was brought into headquarters. "They literally saved that child's life," a source with direct knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. Borough resident Geraldo J. Colon, 35, and the mother showed up at Fairview police headquarters with 13-month-old Abigail Colon shortly after 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 29. The infant wasn't conscious, didn't have a pulse and had trouble breathing, Fairview Police Capt. Michael Martic said. A group of officers who were t…
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Secaucus Officers Revive Elderly Man
A Secaucus man is alive and well thanks to the quick thinking of three city policemen, officials say. Lt. Christopher Rinaldi was called to the corner of Seaview Drive and New County Road just before 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24, for a reported medical emergency. There, he found an elderly man laying unresponsive on the ground and not breathing, the department said. Just as Rinaldi began performing CPR, officers Mikhail Kowlessar and Kasey Kelly arrived on the scene, officials wrote. The pair assisted with the CPR before grabbing their defibrillator and administering a "shock" to the…
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2 Cops Hospitalized For Smoke Inhalation Following Deadly Sussex County Crash
Two police officers were hospitalized for smoke inhalation after freeing a trapped driver during a fiery and fatal crash in Sussex County over the weekend, authorities said. The crash occurred near the intersection of Stickles Pond Road and Yates Avenue in Andover Township around 7:45 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 26, local police said. A vehicle veered off the road and into the woods before bursting into flames, trapping the driver inside. Two police officers broke the windows of the flaming vehicle and unlocked the door with help from two bystanders to rescue the trapped occupant before medical…
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Police, Firefighters Rescue Plastics Worker Who Lost Leg In Clifton Machine Mishap
HEROES: Police and firefighters teamed up to save the life of a factory worker after he lost a lower leg in an industrial accident in Clifton, authorities said. Police Sgt. Robert Marks and Officer Christopher Acampora, who were the first to arrive, climbed up a conveyer belt on a large compacting machine to get to the pinned 33-year-old victim from Clifton, Lt. Robert Anderson said. Marks is a decade-long department veteran who's served in the U.S. Army and National Guard. Acampora is a rookie with nine years of military experience, including in the U.S. Marine Corps. Working swiftly, bot…
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: Sergeant Rescues Suspects From Burning SUV After Pursuit Ends In Crash Near
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UPDATE: A Palisades Interstate Parkway police sergeant rescued two suspects from a burning SUV after it crashed into two other vehicles and overturned during a stolen-vehicle chase Thursday afternoon, authorities said. A group of suspects who'd become the subjects of a suspicious persons report fled the Englewood Cliffs Marina in a GMC Envoy shortly before 3 p.m., PIP Police Sgt. First Class Raymond Walter said. An alert went out to surrounding departments about the SUV, which had been reported stolen out of Onondaga County, NY, he said. Englewood Cliffs police began pursuing the vehicle b…
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: Westwood Officer Rescues Emerson Driver After Car Plunges Into Backyard Pool
UPDATE: A driver who was rescued by a Westwood police officer after her wagon crashed into a backyard swimming pool received a summons for careless driving, Police Chief Michael Pontillo said Thursday. The 32-year-old Emerson driver, whom he didn’t identify by name, was headed south on Lafayette Avenue when her 2021 Honda wagon crossed over the center line as it rounded the bend at Ridgewood Road around 3 a.m. Monday, Pontillo said. The Honda hit a curb, then crashed through a fence, a shed and another fence before barreling down a small retaining wall, onto the pool deck and into the…
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: Port Authority PD Saves OD Victim At GWB Bus Station
Port Authority Police Officer Kyle Chmura knows an overdose when he sees one. Responding to a call of a man down in a third-floor bathroom stall at the George Washington Bridge bus station in Washington Heights, Chmura immediately began a sternum rub in an attempt to revive the 50-year-old victim. Chmura and backup Officer Chris Figueroa then gave the man oxygen and two blasts of Narcan that eventually brought him around, Port Authority spokeswoman Lenis Valens said. EMS arrived, continued care and took the victim to nearby Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center for further treatment, Valens…
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: Police Rescue Victims After SUV Rolls Off Route 17 Onto Railroad Bed
Police rescued the occupants of an SUV that rolled 50 yards off Route 17 into a ditch next to railroad tracks in Carlstadt. Both refused medical attention after the Sunday afternoon crash, Detective Sgt. John Cleary said. Officers Felix D’Amico and William Pangaro, who found both residents trapped, got them out with help from their colleagues from Wood-Ridge and East Rutherford, he said. New Jersey Transit temporarily suspended service while the victims were tended to by the Carlstadt Volunteer Ambulance Corps and the vehicle was removed by Nick’s Towing, the sergeant said. New Jersey T…
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: Paramus Officers Rescue Driver In Fiery Crash On Route 17 Pedestrian Bridge
PHOTOS/VIDEO: Two Paramus police officers rescued a trapped driver whose out-of-control SUV climbed the steps of a Route 17 pedestrian bridge and caught fire. The 42-year-old motorist from Harriman, NY, told police his 2016 Range Rover hit something on the northbound highway shortly before 10 p.m. Thursday, Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. He lost control of the vehicle, which crashed onto the stairway of a highway pedestrian bridge just south of Linwood Avenue and burst into flames, Guidetti said. Officers Thomas Holden and Nicholas Perna arrived instantly, opened the rear hatch…
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Emotional Video Shows Newark Police Rescuing Suicidal Man
The moment Newark police rescued a man threatening to jump over a railing to his death at Riverfront Park was captured in an emotional video. A woman who saw the man flagged down officers in the area around Read Street near Raymond Boulevard shortly before 9:45 p.m. on Feb. 24, authorities said. The officers approached the man and tried to talk him into stepping down from the railing, the video shows. “They’re going to take my daughters away from me,” the man said when asked what was wrong. Additional officers arrived on the scene, and when the man was distracted, they quickly grabbed him…
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: Wayne Police Officer Rescues Woman From Burning Home
WAYNE, N.J. – A Wayne police officer pulled a woman through the window of her burning home, saving her life, authorities said. Her frightened husband yelled to Officers Rick Vanderclock and Eric Caffrey that she was still inside the Beechwood Drive house when they arrived at 3:20 a.m. Monday to find the front of the house "fully engulfed in flames" after a seies of explosions, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Vanderclock ran to the back and heard the woman yelling from an open window, Martin said, adding that heavy smoke was pouring out. The officer pulled the woman out and …
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