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Fire Believed Started By Cigarette Damages Same NJ Home Where 2005 Blaze Killed Smoker Fire Believed Started By Cigarette Damages Same NJ Home Where 2005 Blaze Killed Smoker
Fire Believed Started By Cigarette Damages Same NJ Home Where 2005 Blaze Killed Smoker A fire that authorities believe was ignited Thursday by an improperly discarded cigarette damaged the same Lyndhurst home where a blaze more than 17 years ago killed a smoker with an oxygen tank. A married couple got out safely after the fire started at 230 Post Avenue at 9:19 a.m. June 29, Lyndhurst Police Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Borough firefighters arrived to find flames shooting out of a second-floor side bedroom in the 2½-story house, responders said. The firefighters contained the blaze to that room and had it under control in well under a half-hour, Auteri said. They…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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AG Reviewing Incident Of NJ Man Who Fired At Officer Before Taking Own Life AG Reviewing Incident Of NJ Man Who Fired At Officer Before Taking Own Life
AG Reviewing Incident Of NJ Man Who Fired At Officer Before Taking Own Life UPDATE: Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck confirmed Tuesday that his office is reviewing what he called the "apparent suicide by gun" by a Lyndhurst resident after he shot at a police officer in front of his home. The officer shot back, but didn't hit the Post Avenue resident, who then turned his gun on himself during Sunday morning's incident, Bruck said. The attorney general issued this statement: "According to the preliminary investigation, the Lyndhurst Police Department received a phone call at approximately 8:07 a.m. requesting that police check on the welfare of a m…

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NJ Man Fires Gun At Officer, Then Fatally Shoots Self, Responders Say NJ Man Fires Gun At Officer, Then Fatally Shoots Self, Responders Say
NJ Man Fires Gun At Officer, Then Fatally Shoots Self, Responders Say A disgruntled Lyndhurst man fired a shot at a borough police officer, then turned the gun on himself Sunday, multiple sources told Daily Voice. The 36-year-old resident was outside his Post Avenue home -- a block and a half off Ridge Road -- when the officer encountered him while responding to a 911 call of a domestic disturbance around 8 a.m., responders said. The resident, who records show had no criminal history, fired a round at the officer before apparently shooting himself, they said. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital a short time later. Daily Voice was temporarily with…

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by Jerry DeMarco