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HERO: Off-Duty Ridgefield Firefighter Helps Officer Save Unresponsive Man In Crash HERO: Off-Duty Ridgefield Firefighter Helps Officer Save Unresponsive Man In Crash
Hero: Off-Duty Ridgefield Firefighter Helps Officer Save Unresponsive Man In Crash A Ridgefield firefighter is being hailed a hero after saving a man's life at the scene of a car crash earlier this week. On Wednesday, Feb. 5, at approximately 3:40 p.m., Ridgefield Fire Lt. Matthew Bonaguaro was on his way home from work when he came upon a motor vehicle accident on Grand Avenue involving two cars, the fire department said. Bonaguaro noticed Ridgefield Police Officer Faith Karabiyik assisting an unresponsive man who had been pulled from one of the vehicles. Recognizing that Officer Karabiyik needed help, Lieutenant Bonaguaro immediately retrieved a medical kit and AED fro…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Arrangements Set, Obituary Posted For Fairfield Officer James 'Jimmy' Ciampi Arrangements Set, Obituary Posted For Fairfield Officer James 'Jimmy' Ciampi
Arrangements Set, Obituary Posted For Fairfield Officer James 'Jimmy' Ciampi Arrangements have been finalized for Fairfield Police Officer James "Jimmy" Ciampi, who died Monday, Sept. 9, following a battle with cancer. He would have turned 32 in October. According to his obituary on the Ippolito-Stellato Funeral Home website, visitation will be held Thursday, Sept. 12 from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the funeral home in Fairfield. The funeral will be at 8:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 13 at the funeral home, with a Funeral Mass set for 10 a.m., at the St. Thomas More R.C. Church. Ciampi graduated from West Essex High School before earning his bachelor's from Rutgers University…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
HEROES: Secaucus Officers Revive Unresponsive Man HEROES: Secaucus Officers Revive Unresponsive Man
Heroes: Secaucus Officers Revive Unresponsive Man Two heroes in blue revived a man who'd stopped breathing. Secaucus Police Officer Michael Borrelli immediately began CPR when he and Officer Austin C. Hawxhurst arrived and found the unresponsive victim at the Harmon Cove Towers earlier this month, Police Chief Dennis Miller said. Hawxhurst administered a first shock from a defibrillator as he and Borelli continued CPR while awaiting EMTs from nearby Hudson Regional Hospital and paramedics from Jersey City Medical Center, the chief said. A second shock helped get a pulse going, Miller said.  The man then regained consciousness and wa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
CPR, Defib, Gator Used For Victim Of Medical Episode In Saddle River County Park CPR, Defib, Gator Used For Victim Of Medical Episode In Saddle River County Park
CPR, Defib, Gator Used For Victim Of Medical Episode In Saddle River County Park An off-duty nurse helped save the life of a 69-year-old bicyclist who was knocked unconscious in a fall at a Bergen County park, authorities said. Jacqueline Polentarutti was conducting CPR when Glen Rock and Paramus police and Bergen County sheriff's officers arrived at the bike path in Saddle River County Park near the Paramus border last Wednesday, Aug. 2. Glen Rock Police Officers Matt Stanislao, Sam Evans and Andrew Magro brought a defibrillator that was used in an effort to revive the victim, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said.  Members of the Paramus Rescue Squad drove the u…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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'People Said She Was Dead': Off-Duty Nurse Revives Drowning Girl, 8, At Ridgefield Pool 'People Said She Was Dead': Off-Duty Nurse Revives Drowning Girl, 8, At Ridgefield Pool
'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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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
'No Pulse, Blue Lips,' Paterson's Bravest, Finest Revive Victim At Girl's Softball Game 'No Pulse, Blue Lips,' Paterson's Bravest, Finest Revive Victim At Girl's Softball Game
'No Pulse, Blue Lips,' Paterson's Bravest, Finest Revive Victim At Girl's Softball Game Sometimes the fates are in your favor: When the heart of a spectator at a Paterson girls softball game stopped beating, one of the first to rush to the fallen woman's aid was one of the coaches -- city firefighter John Molina. Also there in seconds was another spectator, Washington Griffin -- a retired Paterson police lieutenant. Together, the veterans of Paterson's bravest and finest -- "real-life superheroes," Mayor Andre Sayegh called them -- revived the 50-year-old grandmother. Molina gave mouth-to-mouth while Griffin handled the chest compressions until her heart began beating again. …

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by Jerry DeMarco