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IMAGES: 'Big One' Consumes Marcal Plant, Ignites Nearby Buildings, Power Lines IMAGES: 'Big One' Consumes Marcal Plant, Ignites Nearby Buildings, Power Lines
Images: 'Big One' Consumes Marcal Plant, Ignites Nearby Buildings, Power Lines UPDATE: They feared it would happen sooner or later. Now it has -- in a way far worse than could have been imagined. Wind-whipped flames consumed the Marcal Plant in Elmwood Park Wednesday night in what quickly became the kind of fire many have long feared. The fire raged for several hours after breaking out in a warehouse around the start of the evening rush along nearby Route 80. Dozens of companies raced to help. Hundreds of smoke eaters jumped in. 500 people lost their jobs. And just when it seemed things couldn't get worse, another threat emerged.  Flames consumed the entire pl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police: Elmwood Park Worker Chases Down Lodi Burglar Police: Elmwood Park Worker Chases Down Lodi Burglar
Police: Elmwood Park Worker Chases Down Lodi Burglar ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- An employee from an Elmwood Park business helped police nab an ex-con from Lodi who'd broken into a van parked outside the building, authorities said. Manuel J. Cravero, 29, took off, but the East Coast Group Floors and Floods employee got into his car, called police and followed him down Chamberlain Avenue just after 9 p.m. Tuesday, Capt. Marc D'Amore said. Responding officers grabbed Cravero near the intersection of Market Street and Brookside Avenue, D'Amore said. He told them that he was "looking for a friend inside of the van," the captain said. Craver…

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by Jerry DeMarco