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ROAD RAGE: Firefighter Gets 5-Year Prison Term For Route 9W Crash That Critically Injured Teens ROAD RAGE: Firefighter Gets 5-Year Prison Term For Route 9W Crash That Critically Injured Teens
Road Rage: Firefighter Gets 5-Year Prison Term For Route 9W Crash That Critically Injured Teens UPDATE: A volunteer firefighter who caused a road-rage crash that nearly killed a group of fellow Bergen County teens – and then inexplicably returned to the scene as a responder – was sentenced to a plea-bargained five years in state prison. Luke G. Stein, 19, apologized to the victims and their families, some of whom addressed the judge emotionally, during a sentencing hearing in Hackensack on Friday, June 30. Lital Aburus said she'd had nine surgeries, including cosmetic operations on her face, neck and arms, along with a broken collarbone. Ariana Grant spoke of laying in a hospital be…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Lodi Firefighter Gets Life-Saving Kidney From Fellow Responder's Fiancée Lodi Firefighter Gets Life-Saving Kidney From Fellow Responder's Fiancée
Lodi Firefighter Gets Life-Saving Kidney From Fellow Responder's Fiancée Volunteer Lodi Firefighter Anthony Maiolo has spent half his life saving others. So when it came time to rescue the former chief, Nancy Scaramuzzo didn't think twice. It was others who began seeking a kidney for Maiolo, 49, a year or so ago. That's because Maiolo, who'd been diagnosed with end-stage renal disease, isn't the type to ask for help. A leg had to be amputated below the knee four years ago after diabetes infected his foot, yet Maiolo has continued to serve his community at Lodi Fire Company 1 -- including responding to calls -- while getting four-hour dialysis treatments three…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
New Details Disclosed By Lawyer In Route 9W Road-Rage Crash That Critically Injured Teens New Details Disclosed By Lawyer In Route 9W Road-Rage Crash That Critically Injured Teens
New Details Disclosed By Lawyer In Route 9W Road-Rage Crash That Critically Injured Teens A volunteer firefighter accused in a road-rage crash that nearly killed a group of fellow Bergen County teens not only returned to the scene as a responder but actively participated in the recovery effort, a personal injury lawyer said in announcing a massive lawsuit. Luke G. Stein, 18, of Cresskill, “helped carry one of the stretchers away from the wreck” off southbound Route 9W in Alpine earlier this month, Samuel L. Davis told reporters during a news conference at his Teaneck office on Thursday, Oct. 27. It was perhaps one of the “most twisted and cynical” things that he’d ever heard an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Driver Seized In Colorado In Route 9W Crash That Critically Injured Bergen County Teens Driver Seized In Colorado In Route 9W Crash That Critically Injured Bergen County Teens
Driver Seized In Colorado In Route 9W Crash That Critically Injured Bergen County Teens UPDATE: A volunteer firefighter who was wanted in connection with a horrific road-rage crash that nearly killed a fellow group of Bergen County teens earlier this week was taken into custody in Colorado on Friday. Luke Stein, 18, was seized on a fugitive-from-justice warrant shortly after noon on Oct. 14 by police at Colorado University in Boulder, where he attends school, records show. Stein -- who's a volunteer firefighter in Alpine and Demarest -- had his vehicle's blue-and-white emergency warning lights on when he pursued and deliberately rear-ended the victims' car on Route 9W in Alpi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Shock, Sadness Follow Sudden Death Of Veteran Leonia Firefighter Shock, Sadness Follow Sudden Death Of Veteran Leonia Firefighter
Shock, Sadness Follow Sudden Death Of Veteran Leonia Firefighter TRIBUTE: Shock and sadness continued to spread with the news that veteran Leonia firefighter Jack Peters, a retired borough police officer, had died suddenly at 65. “It is with sadness and complete shock that we tell you that Jack Peters, husband, father, grandfather, father in law, and friend to many has passed away unexpectedly today,” daughter Kristen Richter wrote Tuesday night. “We know he touched many people in some way. He loved his town, the fire department, and his family -- especially his grandchildren, his “blessings”,” she added. Tributes continued to mount by the hundreds on W…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
TRIBUTE: Hasbrouck Heights Saddened By News Of Respected Career Firefighter's Death TRIBUTE: Hasbrouck Heights Saddened By News Of Respected Career Firefighter's Death
Tribute: Hasbrouck Heights Saddened By News Of Respected Career Firefighter's Death Hasbrouck Heights firefighters who’d just been through a harrowing experience when four people died in a plane crash in a borough backyard were reviewing the event at the Municipal Building the next night when they smelled smoke. Those downstairs got the fire trucks out while those who remained upstairs “looked out the “looked out the window to see flames coming from the Council Chamber windows,” said retired Fire Chief Harry Maisch. "One thing about firefighters is that when there is a fire, everyone gets into mode and is on the same wavelength,” Maisch once said. “We are there to work tog…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Schools
New Milford Firefighter First Recipient Of Scholarship Honoring Terroristic Victim Darren Drake New Milford Firefighter First Recipient Of Scholarship Honoring Terroristic Victim Darren Drake
New Milford Firefighter First Recipient Of Scholarship Honoring Terroristic Victim Darren Drake Volunteer New Milford firefighter and NMHS graduate Christian Pavone was named the first recipient of a scholarship honoring New Milford terror attack victim Darren Drake Drake, a 2013 New Milford High School graduate and former BOE president, was killed in a New York City terror attack last year. Pavone was awarded a $2,000 from The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation's (NNJCF) Darren Drake Memorial Fund. The scholarship award will be given annually to qualified students seeking to pursue a trade or technical career.  Pavone was selected for good grades attained in high school and hi…

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by Cecilia Levine