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Sheriff's K-9 Saves The (Earth) Day In NJ Town After Key Set Is Lost Sheriff's K-9 Saves The (Earth) Day In NJ Town After Key Set Is Lost
Sheriff's K-9 Saves The (Earth) Day In NJ Town After Key Set Is Lost An ad hoc search party was having trouble finding an important set of keys lost during an Earth Day cleanup in Elmwood Park, so Police Chief Michael Foligno called on the experts. Borough police had organized the community cleanup involving their officers, DPW and Recreation Department workers and Foligno's administrative assistant, Angela Fava on Friday, April 22. They were about an hour into the job along the Susquehanna Railroad tracks when Fava lost the keys to her house and job in some thick brush along the tracks, said Foligno, who's also the borough administrator. "The crew switche…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Homeless Man Found Frozen To Death In Vacant North Jersey Building ID'd Homeless Man Found Frozen To Death In Vacant North Jersey Building ID'd
Homeless Man Found Frozen To Death In Vacant North Jersey Building ID'd UPDATE: The family of a homeless Guatemalan immigrant found frozen to death in a vacant apartment in Cliffside Park won’t be able to bring his body home, friends say. A concerned friend who hadn’t seen him went to check the Palisade Avenue building near the Fairview border where Jorge Adalberto Roca had been staying with nearly a dozen other squatters, authorities said. Like him, Roca’s wife had suffered from severe alcoholism Roca’s wife, Virginia, died from alcoholism three months ago. Their children were placed with a caretaker in Fairview. That left Roca – an undocumented immigrant fro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Homeless Man Found Frozen To Death In NJ Garage, Companion Hospitalized Homeless Man Found Frozen To Death In NJ Garage, Companion Hospitalized
Homeless Man Found Frozen To Death In NJ Garage, Companion Hospitalized A 35-year-old homeless man was found frozen to death and his companion barely alive Friday morning in a Palisades Park municipal parking garage, authorities said. The male companion was in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit at Hackensack University Medical Center, they said. A DPW crew found the pair sleeping on a mattress and called police at 9:40 a.m., said Capt. Anthony Espino, the officer in charge of the department. The Bergen County Medical Examiner found no signs of foul play and said the cause of death was hypothermia. Temperatures dropped into the mid-teens overnight w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Weekend Explosion Damages Three Middlesex County Homes Weekend Explosion Damages Three Middlesex County Homes
Weekend Explosion Damages Three Middlesex County Homes An explosion related to an early-morning fire damaged three Central Jersey homes over the weekend. Helmetta's volunteer firefighters responded to 1 High St. around 3 a.m. Sunday, and put out the fire that broke out. The subsequent explosion was caused by propane tanks on a trailer, initial reports says. No injuries were reported, though three homes were damaged, the Helmetta OEM said. The Helmetta Volunteer Fire Department, Fire Marshal’s Office, DPW, Spotswood police, Spotswood EMS, Spotswood OEM, Middlesex County Hazmat, and Sayreville Building Department all responded.

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by Cecilia Levine