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FLASH FLOOD: Motorists Rescued, Vehicles Float, Roads Jammed Throughout Area FLASH FLOOD: Motorists Rescued, Vehicles Float, Roads Jammed Throughout Area
Flash Flood: Motorists Rescued, Vehicles Float, Roads Jammed Throughout Area Some cars flipped while many floated, responders rescued dozens of motorists whose vehicles became submerged and traffic throughout Bergen and Passaic counties was paralyzed by the hard rain that fell Monday afternoon. Torrential thunderstorms stranded motorists rescued by emergency responders. Others watched their cars float away. Roadways of all widths and lengths were closed -- some of them in more than one spot. A flash-flooded southbound Route 208 was closed after a vehicle flipped. Broadway just west of Midland Avenue below the NJ Transit trestle on the Fair Lawn side.Boyd A. Lo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Odd Coincidence: Bogus Park Ridge Active Shooter Call, Bank Robbery Unrelated, Authorities Say Odd Coincidence: Bogus Park Ridge Active Shooter Call, Bank Robbery Unrelated, Authorities Say
Odd Coincidence: Bogus Park Ridge Active Shooter Call, Bank Robbery Unrelated, Authorities Say UPDATE (MAY 8, 2019): As coincidences go, it's odd: A bogus 911 "active shooter" call that brought a SWAT team and swarms of other responders to a Park Ridge home had nothing to do with a bank robbery across town that occurred at almost the same time, authorities said. Questions of a possible connection arose after authorities last week announced that Austin Parks, 48, of Spring Valley had been charged with making the April 17 call. However, a senior law enforcement official told Daily Voice that the call was "unrelated...oddly" to the robbery at nearly the same time of an Oritani Bank bra…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Monday Mayhem As Montvale Driver Slams Through Busy Westwood Intersection Monday Mayhem As Montvale Driver Slams Through Busy Westwood Intersection
Monday Mayhem As Montvale Driver Slams Through Busy Westwood Intersection A 67-year-old Montvale driver was hospitalized after his SUV careened over the lawn of a Westwood apartment complex – narrowly missing landscapers – then uprooted one traffic light post before hitting another at a busy intersection Monday afternoon. The incident began on southbound Kinderkamack Road around 2:45 p.m., Police Chief Michael Pontillo said. The 2016 Ford Edge “traveled over the lawn of the Westwood Hills Apartments Complex, nearly missing landscaper workers, then struck and removed a traffic light post from the ground and continued across Old Hook Road,” Pontillo said It then s…

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by Jerry DeMarco