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HERO: Resourceful Responder Saves Carpet Company After Bogota Firefighters Find Frozen Hydrants HERO: Resourceful Responder Saves Carpet Company After Bogota Firefighters Find Frozen Hydrants
Hero: Resourceful Responder Saves Carpet Company After Bogota Firefighters Find Frozen Hydrants A resourceful firefighter helped save a flooring company in Bogota from ruin before dawn Thursday, authorities said. Firefighters quickly got to Manning Bros Carpet & Flooring on East Fort Lee Road after the boiler-room blaze erupted around 5:15 a.m. There they found two nearby hydrants frozen. A member of Engine Co. 3 then grabbed a road flare and thawed out one of the hydrants. Fellow smoke eaters then cut the roof above the boiler room and kept the flames from spreading to the rest of the 10,000-square-foot building -- allowing the business to open as usual on Thursday. No injuries…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Bogus 911 Call Of Man With Gun Brings Police To Popular Bogota Bar Forced Closed By Crime Bogus 911 Call Of Man With Gun Brings Police To Popular Bogota Bar Forced Closed By Crime
Bogus 911 Call Of Man With Gun Brings Police To Popular Bogota Bar Forced Closed By Crime Adding insult to injury, a false report of a man with a gun brought police to a Bogota bar forced by crime to close for good. Police did make an arrest – of a Ridgefield Park ex-con who they said made the unfounded 911 call. Buddy’s Place on East Fort Lee Road held its last call ever Saturday night after becoming a lightning rod for authorities trying to stem neighborhood crime. Borough police reported making 33 arrests, nearly a third involving drugs, while responding to a total of 85 reports at Buddy's since January 2017. The majority of calls were for fights and disorderly conduct, …

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by Jerry DeMarco