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Chapel Road, Fardale, NJ

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Cool, Calm Mahwah Boy, 11, Smells Smoke Before School Bus Goes Up In Flames Cool, Calm Mahwah Boy, 11, Smells Smoke Before School Bus Goes Up In Flames
Cool, Calm Mahwah Boy, 11, Smells Smoke Before School Bus Goes Up In Flames Nothing rattles 11-year-old Rocco Arcese of Mahwah – the kid’s an award-winning downhill racer. So when the school bus he’d just gotten on caught fire Tuesday morning, he calmly told the driver he’d better pull over. Rocco was the Durham Bus Company driver’s first pickup on the way to Joyce Kilmer Middle School. They’d gone barely 300 yards on Chapel Road in Fardale when the fifth-grader smelled smoke. So they quickly got off. SEE: Flames Consume Mahwah School Bus Police officers were there instantly and members of Mahwah Fire Co. 4 quickly doused the Durham Bus Company engine fire. Whi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Flames Consume Mahwah School Bus After Boy Smells Smoke Flames Consume Mahwah School Bus After Boy Smells Smoke
Flames Consume Mahwah School Bus After Boy Smells Smoke A Mahwah school bus driver got the only youngster off safely before the front of the vehicle went up in flames Tuesday morning. They'd gone barely 300 yards on Chapel Road in Fardale when the boy -- the driver's first pickup -- said he smelled something, so they quickly got off, the fifth-grader's mom said.  Police officers were there instantly and members of Mahwah Fire Co. 4 quickly doused the Durham Bus Company engine fire, said the mom, who went to the scene and picked her son up. The bus was totaled, Police Chief James Batelli said, adding that his detectives were investigating the ca…

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by Jerry DeMarco