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UPDATE: Carbon Dioxide Leak Clears Stew Leonard's In Paramus, Three Employees Rescued From Roof UPDATE: Carbon Dioxide Leak Clears Stew Leonard's In Paramus, Three Employees Rescued From Roof
Update: Carbon Dioxide Leak Clears Stew Leonard's In Paramus, Three Employees Rescued From Roof Five employees checked out OK, and firefighters plucked three others from the roof, after a broken refrigeration pipe filled Stew Leonard's in Paramus with carbon dioxide early Tuesday. The store hadn't opened yet when responders rushed to the Paramus Park mall at 7:45 a.m. Nov. 6, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The pipe had been ruptured, releasing the CO2, while a service company was doing maintenance work, the chief said. Everyone was evacuated, including three workers who'd gone to the roof of the building and had to be collected by borough firefighters using a ladder truck, Ehr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Route 46 Walmart Mall Cleared, Homes Evacuated For Hours After Snow Plow Ruptures Propane Tank Route 46 Walmart Mall Cleared, Homes Evacuated For Hours After Snow Plow Ruptures Propane Tank
Route 46 Walmart Mall Cleared, Homes Evacuated For Hours After Snow Plow Ruptures Propane Tank UPDATE: More than a dozen families weren’t able to return to their homes until after 4 a.m. Saturday following a propane tank rupture that cleared a large Route 46 shopping center in Saddle Brook. A bucket loader clearing snow hit the exposed feeder neck of the underground tank shortly after 8:30 p.m. Friday, triggering a mass response and the evacuation of a Walmart and other stores and homes in and around the Saddle Brook Mall, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. “Due to the large leak and the unknown size of the tanks, there’s a chance of explosion,” Kugler said. “So the entire mall was ev…

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by Jerry DeMarco