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Police & Fire
Responders: Stabbing Victim Emerges From Paterson House Fire
An emotionally disturbed man who'd apparently stabbed himself emerged from a burning Paterson home Tuesday afternoon, responders said. Police responding to a call of a barricade subject in the 400 block of Sussex Street shortly before 2 p.m. summoned firefighters after seeing smoke coming from the attic of the 2½-story home. They got the victim outside and conducted CPR. It wasn't immediately clear whether the victim survived. Firefighters had the bulk of the blaze knocked down within 20 minutes but then had to contend with cluttered conditions. They declared it under control about 2…
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Heroes
: Port Authority Team Rescues Seizure Victim At Lincoln Tunnel
A worker had suddenly went into cardiac arrest on the roof of the Port Authority administration building at the Lincoln Tunnel when several heroes rushed to his rescue. Senior Tunnel and Bridge Agent Keith O'Halloran and Tunnel and Bridge Agent David Brierty found him not breathing, with no pulse early Saturday. Three Port Authority police officers quickly joined in. The rescuers began CPR, then gave him two shocks from a defibrillator. Soon, he began breathing and regained a pulse. EMS took the worker to a local hospital, where doctors placed him in a medically-induced coma. All are ho…
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Heroes
: Port Authority Police Officers Revive Heart Attack Victim On GWB
Two Port Authority police officers revived a heart attack victim on the George Washington Bridge. Officers Nikolas Vuksanovich and Cesar Moreno were patrolling on the bridge’s south side sidewalk when the 65-year-old New York man fell in front of them, Port Authority spokeswoman Lenis Rodrigues said. The officers ran to the victim, conducted CPR and, within moments, had him conscious and breathing, Rodrigues said. He was alert and conscious when taken to a hospital, where he was reported in stable condition Friday after suffering cardiac arrest, she said.
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Heroes
: Englewood Police, Firefighters, Dispatcher DPW Workers Save Lives
A police officer who was nearly killed when a gunman dragged him with a car, a trio of men in blue who revived a heart attack victim along with a group of firefighters who rescued a man overcome by freon fumes and two DPW workers who freed a trapped elderly driver are among several Englewood first responders recently honored for their heroism. Police Officer Anthony Gallo had stopped two upstate New York men in a car last year when the driver ran off. Gallo bolted after him while Officer Maciej Mlynaryk dealt with a front-seat passenger -- who got into the driver’s seat and hit the gas. Ha…
Police & Fire
Woman, 71, Plunges To Death From Hackensack High Rise, Cause Investigated
Detectives were trying to determine whether a 71-year-old woman jumped or fell Friday afternoon from the 12th floor of a Hackensack high rise. A good Samaritan conducted CPR on the victim before responders arrived at the Excelsior II Luxury Apartments building on Prospect Avenue around 1 p.m., city Police Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. The victim was taken with severe head trauma to nearby Hackensack University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, DeWitt said. Investigators were trying to determine whether the incident was a possible jumper or accidental fall, he said. Firefighters …
Police & Fire
Off-Duty Trooper Gives Life-Saving CPR At Prudential Center
An off-duty New Jersey State Trooper who once saved a woman from a knife-wielding man in a car revived another woman who had collapsed and stopped breathing in a restroom at the Prudential Center over the weekend, authorities said. Trooper Cassandra Pugh was attending an event at the arena on Sunday, Oct. 6 when she heard someone calling for help in a nearby bathroom, New Jersey State Police said. She immediately ran inside and found a woman lying on the floor unconscious and not breathing. Without hesitation, Pugh began performing CPR with assistance from an off-duty Mansfield Township po…
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Boy, 2, Fatally Struck By Dump Truck In Sussex County
A 2-year-old boy was fatally struck by a dump truck in Stanhope Monday morning, authorities said. ** UPDATE: A GoFundMe page had raised more than $16,000 for the grieving Stanhope family as of Wednesday morning ** Responding Stanhope and Byram officers found two passing drivers conducting CPR on the toddler around 10:40 a.m., on Route 206 northbound near Acorn Street, Stanhope Police Sgt. William Heater said. Police assisted with CPR until the Lakeland Emergency Squad arrived and took the boy to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Heater said. Max Ramirez, 2, of StanhopeBr…
Police & Fire
Drowning Swimmer Revived At Hackensack High-Rise Pool
A lifeguard pulled a drowning man from a pool at a Hackensack high-rise Saturday afternoon, authorities said. The lifeguard at the Prospect Place Apartments on Prospect Avenue began CPR, and got a pulse, before responding city police officers took over, Lt. James Smith said. The victim was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center following the 4 p.m. call, he said.
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Pascack Valley Junior Police Academy: Most Recruits Ever In NJ Get CPR Certification
Nearly 100 members of the Pascack Junior Police Academy will be certified in CPR – the largest number ever in New Jersey, authorities said. LifeSavers and the American Heart Association are donating the instructional kits for every recruit, ages 10 to 14, they said. Police from Washington Township, Westwood and Emerson coordinate and direct the Pascack Valley JPA, the oldest and largest junior police academy in Bergen County. The event will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Westwood Regional High School, 701 Ridgewood Road in Washington Township. ****** VIDEO: The rash of vehicle thefts and b…
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Englewood Police Revive Heart Attack Victim With Assist From Postal Supervisor
POLICE HEROES: A trio of Englewood police officers revived a heart attack victim with an assist from a local postal supervisor. It happened quickly: One second, 67-year-old mail handler Aubrey Harvey was standing by the timeclock talking with the Englewood postmaster, the same as he always does before his morning break -- the next he was gasping for air on the floor. Harvey, who's been with the U.S. Postal Service nearly 50 years, "was having what looked like a seizure," supervisor Ramón Maldonado said. "He was totally unresponsive and gasping for air." A 911 dispatcher told him someone ne…
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Union Police Officers Save Baby Who’d Stopped Breathing
Two police officers in Union rushed into action to perform CPR on a nine-month-old, saving the infant’s life, Capt. Scott Breslow said in a statement. Officers Stephen Viaud and Gaetano D’Allesandro arrived at the Bertha Avenue home within two minutes after the 9-1-1 call in around 8 a.m. Wednesday morning. Family members were waiting outside with the infant, who was “non-responsive,” Breslow said. Gaetano and Viaud, a trained paramedic who teaches CPR to fellow officers, began resuscitating the baby immediately on the front porch of the home. Moments later the baby spit out some water and…
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'People Said She Was Dead': Off-Duty Nurse Revives Drowning Girl, 8, At Ridgefield Pool
Lifeless is how Kerri Burghardt described an 8-year-old girl who was pulled from the Ridgefield community pool Saturday afternoon. Seconds matter in situations like that, the 34-year-old South Hackensack mom knew. "Normally, when they blow an airhorn for an emergency, the child they pull out is paddling," said Burghardt, a nurse at St. Mary's General Hospital in Passaic. "But the first thing I saw was a lifeless body." Burghardt got her own 3-year-old out of the water before clearing bystanders away from the girl, who was laid out on the pool deck. "People were saying she was …
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