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Fast-Acting Morris County Police Officers (One Off-Duty) Save Life Of Unresponsive Driver
A man suffering a medical episode has fast-acting Morris County police officers to thank for saving his life with CPR. Morris Plains Officer Nicholas Grawehr flagged down Morris Township Officer Saul Gutierrez when he noticed an unresponsive driver with his car pulled up onto the sidewalk on East Hanover Avenue around 3:40 p.m. Wednesday, Morris Township police said. Grawehr got into the car as Gutierrez removed the unconscious man and brought him to the front of his car, police said. Gutierrez found the man did not have a pulse and directed an off-duty corrections officer to behin CPR, as…
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Surgeon, Lawyer, Teen Saved Morris County Deliveryman In Cardiac Arrest
Three Good Samaritans who saved a 24-year-old unconscious driver in Morris County say they were in the right place at the right time. Christopher Caccavella, 17, of Roxbury, was on his way to class at the Morris County School of Technology in Denville Wednesday morning when he saw the driver in the SUV next to him collapsed on the steering wheel at the Route 10 jughandle across from the Pelican Center. The teen pulled over and dialed #77, connecting him with a Dangerous Driver System operator. At that moment, Denville attorney Matthew Troiano -- who formerly worked at the Morris Count…
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Mahwah Police Heroes Honored For Reviving Center For Food Action Manager, Donate Defibrillator
HEROES: A 62-year-old warehouse manager at Mahwah's Center for Food Action site was in full cardiac arrest when a group of township police officers responded last July. Using CPR and an automated external defibrillator, they kept Babar Khawaja of Ramsey alive. His pulse returned and he began breathing en route to the hospital, said Detective Michael Grassi, the president of Mahwah PBA Local #143. “B.K.,” as he’s called, made a full recovery and returned to work. He also posed for a photo Friday – along with his wife, Bushra, a CFA maintenance worker – as members of the PBA executive board…
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: Port Authority Police Revive Heart Attack Victim, 73, At Newark Airport
A group of Port Authority police officers brought an unresponsive man back to life at Newark Airport. The 73-year-old victim's pulse had stopped when a TSA agent alerts Sgt. Anthony Giordano and Officers Steve Collegio, Jorge Fujita, Kyle Cherrick, Evangelos Mageros and Michael Raccioppi at a Terminal C checkpoint around 4 p.m. Tuesday, Port Authority Spokeswoman Lenis Rodrigues said. The officers used a defibrillator and conducted CPR, Rodrigues said. "After 15 minutes the man’s pulse returned and he began breathing," she said. He was taken to the nearest hospital for an evaluation.&nbs…
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Elderly Woman Dies On Transatlantic Flight To Newark
A 71-year-old woman suffering breathing problems died on a Newark-bound flight from Frankfurt, reports say. United Airlines crew members administered oxygen and used a defibrillator on the woman, with several people taking turns doing CPR for nearly 40 minutes last Wednesday, passenger Adam Lisberg told the Irish Sun. The plane made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport in Ireland, where the woman was met by emergency medical crews, Fox News reports. The woman was pronounced dead after the flight landed. It was not clear where she was from.
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Fair Lawn Police Revive Driver Whose Car Rolled Into Bank
Fair Lawn police used CPR to revive a driver whose car rolled into a TD Bank branch after a medical episode Thursday morning. The 59-year-old victim was unresponsive when he was taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson after his 2003 Ford Escape hit the the front wall and cigarette disposal at the Maple Avenue bank just before 8:30 a.m., Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Witnesses said the car was parked in front of the bank when it abruptly lurched forward, then reversed back into the spot before a good Samaritan got into the vehicle and put it in park, Metzler said. "It is b…
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Waldwick Police Revive OD'd Van Driver At Intersection
A trio of Waldwick police officers revived a heroin-carrying driver who passed out from an overdose behind the wheel of a van stopped at an intersection, authorities said Saturday. Sgt. David Passaretti and Officers Dylan Ritondale and Michael Sinclair began CPR after finding the 30-year-old driver on the ground next to the van, which was stopped at Sheridan Avenue and East Prospect Street, just before 2 p.m. Friday, Lt. Thomas J. Dowling said. He was unresponsive, with a faint pulse, the lieutenant said. Once the officers revived him, the driver was taken to The Valley Hospital, Dowling s…
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: Female Totowa Driver, 83, Killed In Head-On Wayne Rollover Crash
UPDATE: An 83-year-old Totowa driver was killed when her car crossed the double-yellow line and slammed head-on into an oncoming vehicle in Wayne early Saturday evening, authorities said Sunday morning. Township police conducted CPR on Marcelina Carino within minutes of the 5:44 p.m. crash on Valley Road near Birchwood Terrace, but she was pronounced dead soon after, responders told Daily Voice. Carino was behind the wheel of a northbound 2012 Honda Civic that crossed the double-yellow lines and crashed into another vehicle, which struck a third and overturned, they said. The occupants of …
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: New Milford Police Rescue OD Victim, 51, In Locked SUV
A group of New Milford police officers rescued a 51-year-old borough woman who’d overdosed in her locked SUV. An officer broke the window so he and his colleagues could get to the victim in a rear River Road parking lot late Friday afternoon, Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said. They immediately administered CPR and then Narcan, which brought her around, he said. The woman -- who told police she'd taken oxycodone -- was taken to Holy Name Medical Center by a hospital ambulance, Van Saders said. The heroes: Capt. Kevin Kiene, Lt. Brian Clancy and Officers Brian Ciavaglia and Andrew Lignos.
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Garfield Police Revive Unresponsive High School Soccer Player, 14
A 14-year-old Garfield High School student who collapsed during soccer practice was revived by police. Responding to Wednesday’s 3:54 p.m. call, Officer Daniel Pozo “conducted an initial assessment and determined she had no pulse and wasn't breathing” after coaches tried using a defibrillator, Capt. Darren Sucorowski said. “Officer Pozo and Sgt. William Houck performed CPR on the 14-year-old female and she began breathing on her own,” he said. Hackensack University Medical Center EMTs and paramedics responded to the Spring Street soccer field and transported the girl to HUMC, the captain s…
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: Ramsey Police Officers Revive Heart Attack Victim
RAMSEY, N.J. – An engaged woman who had a heart attack at a friend’s home in Ramsey might not have seen her next birthday, much less her wedding, if not for two borough police officers who brought her back to life. After feeling chest pains, the Tampa woman suddenly passed out and was semi-conscious on the living-room floor of her friend’s Harlind Terrace home when Officer Matthew Rork found her just after 6 a.m. one day last fall. “I remember waking up with a severe chest pain early that morning and waking up my friend and fiancé,” the woman said of the Sept. 3 incident. They were about t…
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: Upper Saddle River Responders Rescue Unresponsive Man, 58
UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. -- A 58-year-old Upper Saddle River man wasn't breathing and didn't have a pulse when borough police arrived at his home. Officers Kevin McWilliams and Colin Gurney began CPR and attached a defibrillator as ambulance corps members and paramedics responded, Detective Lt. Edward Kane said. The victim's pulse returned and he was rushed to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, the lieutenant said. He was back at work six weeks later. The grateful man and his family attended a recent borough council meeting, making powerful speeches thanking the emergency workers for thei…
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