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Firefighters Battle Meadowlands Brush Fire Firefighters Battle Meadowlands Brush Fire
Firefighters Battle Meadowlands Brush Fire UPDATE: The latest in a series of recent area brush fires was the biggest, as winds Friday night blew a blaze through a swath of the Meadowlands. The fire broke out shortly after 10 p.m. near the East Rutherford Public Works building off Murray Hill Parkway and Madison Circle Drive near Berry's Creek. East Rutherford firefighters thought they had most of the blaze knocked within 20 or so minutes. But a third alarm was called a little under an hour after it began. Winds kept the Meadowlands brush fire going.East Rutherford FD Off Murray Hill Parkway in East Rutherford.East Rutherfor…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Cold Case Unit Cracks 1985 Killing Of Man Dumped In Meadowlands Cold Case Unit Cracks 1985 Killing Of Man Dumped In Meadowlands
Cold Case Unit Cracks 1985 Killing Of Man Dumped In Meadowlands Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, State Police and the NYPD cracked a 35-year-old cold-case murder with the arrest of a Manhattan man accused of killing a Venezuelan national. David Garrido, 66, is charged with murder in the June 1985 slaying of 27-year-old Ricardo Brown, whose body was found dumped in the marshes in the Meadowlands. Brown had been shot in the head and strangled, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Thursday. His body had been “wrapped in sheets of plastic inside a wicker steamer trunk stuffed into a storage trunk,” the prosecutor said. It was f…

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by Jerry DeMarco