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Classic Corvette Crashes Into Hawthorne Home After Driver Loses Control
A 1966 Chevrolet Corvette slammed into a Hawthorne home on Franklin Avenue after the driver lost control while reversing, according to incident reporter Boyd A. Loving. Photo(s) of the day, 11/11/2024: The driver/owner of a 1966 Chevrolet Corvette sustained non-life threatening facial... Posted by Boyd A. Loving on Monday, November 11, 2024 The crash happened early Monday afternoon, Nov. 11, 2024, leaving the driver with non-life-threatening facial injuries. Witnesses reported seeing the classic car back up at high speed, ultimately colliding with the home and damaging its f…
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Heroes
: Bystanders Free Trapper Driver Who Crashed In Glen Rock After Falling Asleep
UPDATE: Bystanders helped free a 30-year-old driver after she fell asleep and her SUV slammed into a utility pole in Glen Rock, authorities said. The 2011 Kia Sportage split the pole into pieces, then rolled onto the driveway of a Lincoln Avenue residence between Greenway Road and Isabella Place shortly before 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 15, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Good Samaritans helped open a hole in the windshield and, with the help of a blanket to cover some of the jagged edges, got the Hawthorne driver out as police pulled up. She was conscious and alert but wincing in p…
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Sedan Smashes Into Glen Rock Storefront
A driver was OK after her sedan barreled into a Glen Rock storefront. The 2010 Subaru Legacy plowed into the downtown Heidt Agency insurance office on Rock Road just off Glen Avenue shortly after 11 a.m. Friday, March 11. The 61-year-old Glen Rock driver "mistook the accelerator for the brake," Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Borough police were first on the scene, followed by firefighters from Glen Rock and Hawthorne. A Glen Rock building inspector also responded. No injuries were reported in the downtown Glen Rock mishap.Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE All Points Towing removed the…
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Neighboring Fire Companies Douse Pickup Truck Blaze Off Route 208
A pickup truck went up in flames in Glen Rock late Saturday morning. Glen Rock and Hawthorne firefighters teamed up to extinguish the fire off the corner of Grandview and Lincoln avenues near northbound Route 208 shortly after 11 a.m. "The owner of the vehicle, a 60-year-old Oakland man, stated he had been driving on Route 208 when another motorist alerted him that his vehicle was smoking," Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. "He pulled off the highway and brought the vehicle safely to a stop and exited before the fire spread to the passenger compartment." Hawthorne police assiste…
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Family Of 5 Loses Everything In Fierce Hawthorne Fire
UPDATE: Two cats were killed and another was missing in a destructive fire that ravaged a Hawthorne home, authorities said. A family of five -- including three children -- got out OK after the fire erupted on Victor Place around 7 p.m. Sunday, they said. They were evaluated on-scene by EMS. At the scene of the Victor Place fire in Hawthorne.DAILY VOICE The blaze immediately went to a second alarm before heavy flames and problems with water pressure boosted it to three, Hawthorne Fire Chief Jerry Speranza said. The roof was opened and the fire was eventually placed under control after…
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Firefighters Battle Hawthorne Blaze
UPDATE: Two cats were killed and another was missing in a destructive fire that ravaged a Hawthorne home, authorities said. A family of five -- including three children -- got out OK after the fire erupted on Victor Place around 7 p.m. Sunday, they said. They were evaluated on-scene by EMS. 76 Victor Place, HawthorneTom Tomesco The blaze immediately went to a second alarm before water problems and heavy flames boosted it to three, Hawthorne Fire Chief Jerry Speranza said. The roof was opened and the fire was eventually placed under control after about 90 minutes. Firefighters conti…
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Authorities: Empty Bed Of Roll-Off Truck Was Raised When It Hit RR Bridge In Hawthorne
UPDATE: A driver was hospitalized after the raised bed of his roll-off truck struck a railroad bridge and landed on its side Monday morning in Hawthorne, authorities said. The driver apparently had just delivered a trash container and drove off without lowering the bed before it struck the nearby Wagaraw Road bridge at Lincoln Street at 6:49 a.m., said Nancy Snyder, NJ Transit's chief media relations and communications officer. He was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening, she said, adding that he also received a sum…
Police & Fire
Dump Truck With Trailer Barrels Down Embankment Into Hawthorne Home
A dump truck and equipment trailer owned by a Wayne landscaping company barreled down an embankment and crashed into a home in Hawthorne on Monday. The single-axle crew cab truck, owned by Canete Landscaping, was headed down Hillcrest Avenue around 5 p.m. when the driver said the brakes failed, responders said. After hitting a parked SUV, the truck careened down the embankment and into the rear closed-in porch of an Emeline Drive home. No injuries were reported. A heavy-duty tow truck was summoned to remove the wreckage. A building inspector responded to assess whether the home could c…
Police & Fire
Pets Rescued From Hawthorne House Fire, Flames Climb From Basement To Roof
Two pets were rescued from a Friday night Hawthorne house fire that raced from the basement to the attic. No injuries were reported in the two-alarm blaze, which responders said broke out in a home at the corner of Maitland Avenue and May Street at 10 p.m. and quickly made its way to the third floor and into the attic, Hawthorne Fire Chief Joseph Speranza said. Firefighters had the main body knocked in a little over an hour and a half, keeping it from blowing through the roof, Speranza said. They were joined at the scene by police, the Hawthorne Volunteer Ambulance Corps and the Ladies Aux…
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IT? Hit-Run Kia Leaves Paterson Responder's Family Of 9 Without Car
"We don't deserve this," Paterson's Jorge Ariel said after finding his SUV severely damaged, his neighbor's sedan smashed up -- and the hit-and-run driver's bumper left behind. "I'm really hurting right now," the father of seven said. "We work so hard in getting our stuff. We have kids we take out in that vehicle." Ariel -- a volunteer Hawthorne firefighter who works as a Paterson police aide and Passaic County constable -- has only liability insurance on his Honda Pilot and can't afford the necessary repairs, or a rental car. But he also has the bumper, the V…
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: Garbage Truck Slams Into Tree, Hawthorne Officer Rescues Driver
HAWTHORNE, N.J. -- A driver rescued by a Hawthorne police officer sustained serious injuries after his garbage truck lost its brakes and slammed into a tree in Goffle Brook Park on Tuesday. The truck was descending a steep hill on nearby MacFarlan Avenue before it suddenly careened into the park. An ambulance took the driver to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson. A paramedic team from St. Joseph's assisted Hawthorne EMTs. Hawthorne firefighters tended to a crash-related fluid leak and remained on standby at the scene until the vehicle was safely removed by a wrecker. Boyd…
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