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Saturday, apr 27
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Driver Seized After Sunday Morning Crash Splits Utility Pole In Ridgewood
A driver was taken after custody following a Sunday morning crash that snapped a utility pole in Ridgewood, causing scattered power and communications outages in the area. The uninjured driver was brought to Glen Rock police headquarters for a blood-alcohol test and then to village headquarters after the Acura RLX slammed into the pole on North Van Dien Avenue shortly before 8:30 a.m. March 3. A flatbed tow truck removed the sedan. PSE&G and Verizon were summoned to tend to the damaged pole and equipment. Members of Ridgewood Emergency Services assisted with traffic control. Boyd A. …
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Power Knocked Out, Road Temporarily Closed When Contractor's Truck Downs Pole In Ridgewood
A home contractor's truck toppled a utility pole, knocking out power to some customers and temporarily closing busy East Ridgewood Avenue between North Maple Avenue and North Irving Street. The Home Improvements driver out of Park Ridge escaped serious injury when the pole fell on East Ridgewood Avenue around 10 a.m. Monday, July 24. It strewed wires across the roadway and leaked oil from a transformer. Fortunately, the driver wasn't injured.Boyd A. Loving Village police, firefighters, Ridgewood Emergency Services and PSE&G all responded. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contrib…
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Smoky Fire Damages Ridgewood Home
Firefighters doused a smoky house blaze Monday morning in Ridgewood. The fire is believed to have begun in the basement and spread upward through the walls of the George Street home off Canterbury Place -- just a couple blocks from the firehouse on East Glen Avenue -- around 9:45 a.m. April 17. Firefighters had the flames doused within a half-hour. The fire on George Street broke out around 9:45 a.m. Monday, April 17.Boyd A. Loving The 2½-story wood-frame house was left with heavy smoke and water damage, however, rendering it uninhabitable. Mutual aid that Daily Voice was told respond…
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Driver Hospitalized After SUVs Collide In Ridgewood
A driver was hospitalized after two SUVs collided Tuesday night in Ridgewood. The extent of injuries couldn't immediately be determined after the hospitalized driver's older-model Toyota Highlander collided with a Ford Explorer at the corner of Franklin Avenue and North Walnut Stree. A Ridgewood Emergency Services ambulance took the victim to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. The driver of the older model Toyota Highlander was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood following Tuesday night's crash.Boyd A. Loving Both vehicles were towed after firefighters disconnected both of their b…
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Asleep At The Wheel? Driver In Ridgewood Rollover Literally Walks Away Uninjured
A Ridgewood driver whose sedan hit a tree and rolled over literally walked away unscathed -- and to his house just up the street. Responders said he may have fallen asleep before his Toyota Camry landed on its side in the 400 block of Berkshire Road shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 22. He refused medical aid after being evaluated by Ridgewood Emergency Services EMTs and walked a few hundred feet home. A tow truck righted and removed the heavily damaged sedan. Village police are investigating the crash. Firefighters also responded and handled a minor cleanup. Boyd A. Loving took the …
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Downed Power Line Closes Route 208
A downed power line closed Route 208 for hours on Saturday. The highway was closed in both directions through portions of Fair Lawn, Glen Rock, and Hawthorne on Nov. 12 so repairs could be made. The energized line also damaged a section of the southbound highway in Glen Rock when it fell, keeping a lane closed once police reopened the highway. No injuries were reported. Responders included police from Fair Lawn, Glen Rock and Hawthorne, as well as Glen Rock firefighters, New Jersey State Police, the New Jersey Department of Transportation and a Ridgewood Emergency Services unit. Boyd A.…
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Route 208 Closed By Downed Power Lines, Cluster Of Brush Fires Doused
Power lines that fell across Route 208 closed the highway in both directions and ignited several small noontime brush fires. Massive jams stretched beyond eyesight in each direction as police detoured traffic at De Boer Drive in Glen Rock, where the wires fell around 11:30 a.m. Saturday, and Rea Avenue in Hawthorne. NJ Transit also temporarily stopped trains that were running nearby, responders said. Firefighters doused the blazes. Responders included police and firefighters from Glen Rock, Fair Lawn and Hawthorne as well as Glen Rock EMS, Ridgewood Emergency Services, NJDOT and a crew f…
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SUV Driver Hospitalized After Shattering Utility Pole In Ridgewood
A driver was hospitalized after her SUV slammed head-on into a utility pole in Ridgewood over the July 4th weekend. The Honda CRV rammed the pole in front of a Berkshire Road home near Grove Park on Sunday afternoon. The Ridgewood Volunteer Ambulance Corps took the driver to The Valley Hospital with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening. The Ridgewood Volunteer Ambulance Corps took the driver to The Valley Hospital.Boyd A. Loving A PSE&G crew was summoned to replace the pole. The vehicle was towed. Borough police responded with a Ridgewood Emergency Services unit. Boy…
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Motorcyclist Seriously Injured In Route 208 Crash
UPDATE: A retired Teaneck police officer was critically injured when he was thrown from his motorcycle after it struck a defective piece of roadway on Route 208, authorities said. The 59-year-old rider from Rochelle Park was headed north on the highway De Boer Drive when he rode over a defective expansion joint shortly after 3 p.m. Sunday, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Officers closed the highway and rendered first aid before EMTs from the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps took over, transporting the victim to Hackensack University Medical Center with severe trauma, the chi…
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Bricks Fall From Ridgewood Building
No one was hurt when several bricks fell from the facade of a Ridgewood building. The bricks on the three-story building on East Ridgewood Avenue that houses a ground-level Citibank branch with apartments above gave way shortly after 4 p.m. Sunday, March 6. Ridgewood police, firefighters and emergency services workers responded, along with village Building Department Director Anthony Merlino. Members of the Emergency Services Division created a sidewalk detour with cones for temporary pedestrian traffic. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this story. East Ridgewood Av…
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Found
! Helicopter, K-9, More Join Intense Search For Missing Ridgewood Woman
UPDATE: An intense multi-agency search ended happily when a woman who'd wandered into the cold from her Ridgewood home Sunday night was found in Paramus. A State Police helicopter joined the search for the endangered 60-year-old woman, who responders said had gotten lost in the woods after entering Saddle River County Park around 7 p.m. Given the circumstances -- not the least among them sub-freezing temperatures -- "it was imperative to find her," Ridgewood Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. Among the responders: a Bergen County sheriff's K-9 unit, Ridgewood Emergency Services and Para…
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Heroes
: Paramus Officers Rescue Driver In Fiery Crash On Route 17 Pedestrian Bridge
PHOTOS/VIDEO: Two Paramus police officers rescued a trapped driver whose out-of-control SUV climbed the steps of a Route 17 pedestrian bridge and caught fire. The 42-year-old motorist from Harriman, NY, told police his 2016 Range Rover hit something on the northbound highway shortly before 10 p.m. Thursday, Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. He lost control of the vehicle, which crashed onto the stairway of a highway pedestrian bridge just south of Linwood Avenue and burst into flames, Guidetti said. Officers Thomas Holden and Nicholas Perna arrived instantly, opened the rear hatch…
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: Pink Heals Rallies First Responders For Special Waldwick, Cliffside Park Boys
Two special young boys will be treated to a parade of first responders this Sunday in Waldwick, thanks to Pink Heals of Bergen County. Both Cole McKeon of Waldwick and Austin “AJ” Katchen of Cliffside Park were diagnosed months apart last year with Stage 4 neuroblastoma, a type of cancer that attacks certain types of nerve tissue. Before his first birthday, AJ had successful tumor resection surgery, the first of several operations. He’s also undergone chemotherapy that kept him hospitalized several months. Doctors declared AJ in remission last summer, but his immunotherapy and radiation t…
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