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Police: Mail Stolen From Morris County Collection Boxes Police: Mail Stolen From Morris County Collection Boxes
Police: Mail Stolen From Morris County Collection Boxes Parsippany Police have issued a warning after two mail collection boxes were broken into overnight. Boxes at 1160 Parsippany Blvd. and 1180 Route 46 were forcibly entered between 4 p.m. Jan. 22 and 7 a.m. Jan. 23, according to police. The mail collection box on Midvale Avenue in Mountain Lakes was also forced open during the same time frame. The suspect emptied the boxes containing outbound mail. "If you used the collection boxes during the above mentioned time frame, please verify that the person or business you sent mail to received it,” Parsippany police said the warning. The…

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by Valerie Musson
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330-Gallon Acid Spill Sends Sewer Plant Worker, Police Officer To Hospital 330-Gallon Acid Spill Sends Sewer Plant Worker, Police Officer To Hospital
330-Gallon Acid Spill Sends Sewer Plant Worker, Police Officer To Hospital A Parsippany sewer plant worker and responding police officer were hospitalized following a chemical spill Thursday, authorities said. Peroxyacetic acid -- which is highly corrosive -- leaked from a faulty valve on a 330-gallon storage container at the Edwards Road facility around 2 p.m., Parsippany Police Sgt. Brian Conover said. The worker sustained minor chemical burns and the officer reported symptoms consistent with chemical exposure, were decontaminated and taken to Morristown Medical Center, police said. The two patients were both later released. Par-Troy EMS, Rockaway Neck First Ai…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Unknown Substance Leaks Bring HazMat Response To Boonton Chemical Plant Unknown Substance Leaks Bring HazMat Response To Boonton Chemical Plant
Unknown Substance Leaks Bring HazMat Response To Boonton Chemical Plant A hazardous materials team responded to a Boonton chemical plant Wednesday morning after three drums were found to be leaking an unknown substance during a scheduled fire inspection, authorities said. Substance samples from a pair of unlabeled 55-gallon drums and a third marked as flammable, at Adron Inc. on Fanny Road, indicated no direct hazard to the public, Parsippany Police Sgt. Brian Conover said. Parsippany police, Morris County Haz-Mat, the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office (Fire and Environmental Unit), NJ Department of Environmental Protection, Rockaway Neck Fire D…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Police: Parsippany Student Injured Trying To Climb Out Window During Lockdown Police: Parsippany Student Injured Trying To Climb Out Window During Lockdown
Police: Parsippany Student Injured Trying To Climb Out Window During Lockdown A Parsippany Hills High School cut himself while trying to climb out a first floor window during a Friday morning lockdown, authorities said. The student was treated for the minor injury by EMTs and during the lockdown, which had ended as of 9:55 a.m., Parsippany police said. The lockdown was in response to a perceived threat at Parsippany Hills High School, the BOE said.  "The situation has been secured and Parsippany Police are handling the matter," the statement says. The PHHS lockdown is separate from the Morris County School of Technology lockdown, which students on Snapchat sai…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
SEE ANYTHING? Owners Say Hit-Run Driver Damaged BMW Outside Parsippany Post Office SEE ANYTHING? Owners Say Hit-Run Driver Damaged BMW Outside Parsippany Post Office
SEE Anything? Owners Say Hit-Run Driver Damaged BMW Outside Parsippany Post Office A North Jersey couple says another vehicle scraped the passenger side of their BMW from the back to the front outside the Parsippany post office -- although auto-body experts say it appears the car was in motion when the damage occured. Ed Velarde left the 4 Series coupe for no more than 20 minutes on Monday, only to find small dents, scrapes and the front passenger-side reflector ripped off, said his wife, Frances. “It looks like they squeezed out of a tight parking spot” at the Waterview Boulevard facility off Route 46, she said. “It was a white car,” she said. “They left paint behind...…

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by Jerry DeMarco