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HEROES: Mahwah Police Resuscitate Rockland Teen At Ramapo Reservation HEROES: Mahwah Police Resuscitate Rockland Teen At Ramapo Reservation
Heroes: Mahwah Police Resuscitate Rockland Teen At Ramapo Reservation A drowning teen from Rockland was resuscitated by Mahwah police after his friends pulled him from a lake in the Ramapo mountains, authorities said. The 17-year-old Spring Valley boy was surrounded by his friends when Mahwah Police Officers Nicholas Williams, Ryan Moore, Connor Gilgen, Luke Rice and Liam Kantanas reached the upper lake at the Ramapo Reservation around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 5, Capt. Guido Bussinelli said. He was unresponsive from all the water he’d ingested but had a pulse, the captain said. The boy apparently had jumped into the lake, began to struggle and was underwate…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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UPDATE: Body Of Drowned New Milford High School Student Pulled From Pond UPDATE: Body Of Drowned New Milford High School Student Pulled From Pond
Update: Body Of Drowned New Milford High School Student Pulled From Pond UPDATE: The body of a New Milford High School senior was removed from a borough pond hours after what witnesses said was a tragic accident. Clinten Ajit, 18, was apparently doing a good deed when he went into the Hard Castle Pond behind the Dorchester Manor Apartments near the borough athletic fields around 7:15 p.m. Friday, April 22. "Some kids accidentally kicked a soccer ball in the water and [he] said he would get it for them," a responder said after police spoke with witnesses. "He didn't know how to swim and never came back up." Responding officers found Ajit's shoes on the bank, th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Blaze Engulfs Iconic Kosher Market, Mahwah Firefighters Assist Rockland Colleagues Blaze Engulfs Iconic Kosher Market, Mahwah Firefighters Assist Rockland Colleagues
Blaze Engulfs Iconic Kosher Market, Mahwah Firefighters Assist Rockland Colleagues Firefighters from Mahwah assisted their Rockland colleagues at the scene of a raging blaze that destroyed an iconic kosher supermarket on Thursday. Motty’s Supermarket on North Main Street in Monsey burst into flames as a Ramapo police officer who saw smoke approached shortly after 12:30 p.m., authorities said. No injuries were immediately reported in the blaze at the grocery, formerly known as Klein's. Surrounding businesses and residences were temporarily evacuated. Main Street was also shut down. Motty's Supermarket fire in Monsey.Tony Greco for DAILY VOICE Mahwah firefighters join…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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UPDATE: Bodies Of Teen Ramapo Lake Drowning Victims Recovered UPDATE: Bodies Of Teen Ramapo Lake Drowning Victims Recovered
Update: Bodies Of Teen Ramapo Lake Drowning Victims Recovered UPDATE: The bodies of a 17-year-old boy and girl from Essex County who drowned in Ramapo Lake in Oakland during Tuesday evening's storm were both recovered hours later, responders said. Matthew Poole and Isabella Brodsky were about to become seniors at Livingston High School. “They were swimming when the storm hit," a law enforcement official told Daily Voice. "The boy went in to save the girl." Poole's body was recovered just before 9 p.m., nearly three hours after going under, he said. Brodsky's was found an hour or so later. Several dive teams responded to a staging area…

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by Jerry DeMarco