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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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Moonachie Resident, 69, Hospitalized With Burns After Mobile Home Mishap
A Moonachie resident on home oxygen was hospitalized with severe flash burns on her face and hair following a mishap at her mobile home. The 69-year-old victim was taken by the Moonachie First Aid & Rescue Squad to Hackensack University Medical Center from the Vanguard mobile homes off Moonachie Avenue around 8:30 p.m. Monday, April 17, Police Lt. Jeff Napolitano said. There was no fire, indicating a likely quick flash, the lieutenant said.
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Climate Change Protestors Jam Teterboro Airport, Route 46
Members of a protest group angered over climate-changing CO2 and other emissions from private jets glued themselves to huge self-made teepees at Teterboro Airport, disrupting area air and land traffic. Two climbed a teepee and refused to come down at the entrance to Jet Aviation on Charles Lindbergh Drive. Others glued their hands to the makeshift structures. Seven of them were arrested, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey's Lenis Valens said. Port Authority police were joined at the airport by a Bergen County Regional SWAT team and Moonachie police after protestors blocked an…
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: DWI Driver Injures Mom, Son
UPDATE: A Hasbrouck Heights driver and her teenage son were injured when a car driven by a drunk motorist from Teaneck slammed into theirs on Route 46, authorities said. The 50-year-old woman and her son, 15, were stopped at the traffic light at Huyler Street on the westbound highway in South Hackensack when their 2020 Tesla was rear-ended shortly after midnight Friday, Detective Sgt. James Donatello said. The driver of the 2008 Volkswagen Passat that hit them -- Dayana Perez-Kazimierczak, 29, of Teaneck -- was intoxicated, the sergeant said. The mother complained of neck and back pain, w…
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Woman Beaten, Deliberately Hit By Car In Motel Parking Lot, BF In Custody: South Hackensack PD
A man repeatedly punched a woman in the face, knocked her down and then hit her with his car in the parking lot of a motel just off Route 46 – all of which was captured on security video, authorities said. Choice Neely Jr., 44, of Paterson sped off in a Mercedes SUV, leaving his injured girlfriend outside the Travelodge Motel on Huyler Street around 11:30 a.m. July 1, Detective Sgt. James Donatello said Thursday. Members of the Moonachie First Aid & Rescue Squad took the woman to Hackensack University Medical Center with severe road rash on her legs and shoulder, among other injuries, f…
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: Hasbrouck Heights Police Officer Rescues Woman In Wheelchair From Fire
Flames rolled across the ceiling and smoke filled the home as Hasbrouck Heights Police Officer Christopher Connors dashed upstairs and carried a 65-year-old woman in a wheelchair to safety on Monday. The two-alarm fire broke out in the kitchen and quickly spread to the second floor of the Baldwin Terrace home shortly before 5 p.m. An 84-year-old family member met Connors as he arrived and pointed him to the trapped woman on the second floor, Hasbrouck Heights Police Sgt. John Behr said. Connors then carried her down to the front lawn, where he and she were treated by EMS. Both appear…
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Two Hospitalized In Route 17 Crash
Two people were hospitalized after an overnight crash on Route 17 in Hasbrouck Heights. The extent of their injuries couldn't immediately be determined following the collision on the northbound side outside the Shell station at Malcolm Avenue shortly before 3:30 a.m. Saturday. Members of the Moonachie First Aid & Rescue Squad and the Wallington Emergency Squad responded along with Hasbrouck Heights police and firefighters. They took the victims to Hackensack University Medical Center. Both vehicles had to be towed.
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Arrangements For Late Tow Truck-Driving Bergen First Responder Include Procession
A tow truck procession escorted by police will honor a driver who was killed while responding to a call on Route 3. The procession for Robert Thornton, 31, an EMS volunteer from Ridgefield Park, will begin at 3:45 p.m. Friday, March 4, on southbound Veterans Boulevard. Rutherford police will lead the procession, joined by other local police motorcycle units. Thornton, who donated his organs, will be cremated and his remains interred in Madonna Cemetery in Fort Lee with his father's, said his cousin, Monique Schwarz. Visiting hours are from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Macagna-Diffily-Onorato…
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'Even In Death,' Tow Truck-Driving NJ First Responder Will Continue To Save Lives
The Stars & Stripes were raised and then lowered to half-staff in honor of a tow truck-driving first responder from Bergen County who was taken off life support this weekend after being gravely injured while responding to a call. Robert Thornton, 31, of Ridgefield Park, was officially pronounced dead at Hackensack University Medical Center at 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27, loved ones said. Even in death, Thornton "will now save many lives," Moonachie First Aid & Rescue Squad Lt. Chris Yuhasz said. Thornton's organs were harvested following a solemn ceremony Sunday that drew a large cr…
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Flag Ceremony Set At Hospital For NJ Tow Truck Driver, First Responder Coming Off Life Support
UPDATE (Feb. 28): The Stars & Stripes were raised and then lowered to half-staff in honor of a tow truck-driving first responder from Bergen County who was taken off life support this weekend after being gravely injured while responding to a call. READ MORE.... ****** TRIBUTE: A tow truck-driving first responder from Bergen County who was gravely injured while on a call two weeks ago will be removed from life support following a flag-raising ceremony scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27. Family members of Robert Thornton, 31, said there will be no limit on the number of attendees durin…
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Multiple 'Families' Rally For Critically Injured Tow Truck-Driving NJ First Responder
UPDATE: A tow truck-driving first responder who was struck by an out-of-control vehicle on Route 3 in Rutherford over the weekend remained in critical condition this week while loved ones, colleagues and friends prayed for a positive outcome. Robert Thornton of Ridgefield Park "has had two surgeries so far," Moonachie First Aid & Rescue Squad Lt. Maria Gigante wrote on a GoFundMe account she established for the family. "He remains in critical condition on a ventilator, but he is stable." A member of multiple "families," Thornton is well-known among North Jersey police, firefighters and …
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: Tow Truck Driver Struck, Critically Injured Clearing Highway
UPDATE: A tow truck driver was fighting for his life after he was gravely injured by an out-of-control vehicle while responding to a previous accident on Route 3 in Rutherford, authorities said. Police had closed down several lanes and the shoulder while placing their vehicles and cones behind the initial two-car crash scene on the westbound highway near Park Avenue -- west of Route 17 and east of the Passaic River -- around 9:45 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13, Police Chief John Russo said. Robert Thornton, 31, of Nick's Towing Service in Rutherford, had one of the vehicles on the flatbed and was p…
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Portable Radios Stolen From Norwood EMS Building, Suspects From Another Squad Charged
Three emergency medical workers with another squad broke into the Norwood EMS building and stole three portable radios, authorities charged. Two of them, Antonio Guinta, 26, and Frank Ballante, 19, both of Norwood, have been with the Moonachie First Aid & Rescue Squad a little over a year, said Franklin Smith, the squad’s captain. The third defendant, Anthony Olsen, 47, of Laurence Harbor was an observer who’d recently been with a squad in South Jersey, Smith said. It turns out he also had a criminal record, authorities said they discovered. The Nov. 29th thefts from the Norwood EMS b…
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School Evacuated, SWAT Standoff Ends Peacefully With Barricaded South Hackensack Man In Custody
A school was evacuated and a SWAT team responded after an emotionally troubled man barricaded himself in his South Hackensack apartment Wednesday. The standoff ended about 4½ hours after it began when members of the Bergen County Regional SWAT team entered the home and took the 43-year-old resident into custody. The landlord had called police around 9:30 a.m., saying he'd heard a lot of loud banging and water running for a couple of hours in the Dyer Avenue apartment off Route 80. The man refused to come to the door, so police checked with those who know him. They said they feared he mig…
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? Burn Victim Says Stranger Threw Acid On Him Outside Moonachie Home
A Moonachie man told police he was burned when an assailant ran up and threw what may have been acid on him as he left home for work early Tuesday. The 50-something victim said he wasn't paying attention to the heavyset stranger -- all dressed in black, with a hoodie, mask and gloves -- who he said suddenly attacked him as he got into his car on West Park Street shortly after 6:30 a.m., Police Chief Richard Behrens said. "The victim said he began to sit down when he felt something thrown at the right side of his face and neck," Sgt. Jeff Napolitano said. "He looked up to see the same heavys…
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Worker Loses Three Fingertips In Moonachie Industrial Accident
A worker at a Moonachie printing company had the tips of three fingers severed in an industrial accident Monday, authorities said. The 31-year-old victim walked out of the 4Over Trade Printing plant on State Street holding up his hand -- the tips of his ring, middle and index fingers missing -- as Officer Frank Tamargo responded around 3 a.m., Sgt. Jeff Napolitano said. "He calmly held up his hand and asked if he thought it could be fixed," Napolitano said. "The officer asked him if he had the tips and he said they were destroyed by the machine." The Moonachie First Aid & Rescue Squad …
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Teterboro Aero School Stabbing: Ridgefield Park Man Seized, North Bergen Victim Hospitalized
A 27-year-old student from Ridgefield Park pulled out a pocketknife and stabbed a classmate in the stomach during an argument at the aeronautics school at Teterboro Airport, authorities confirmed. The 20-year-old victim from North Bergen was reported in stable condition at Hackensack University Medical Center following the night-class stabbing shortly after 11 p.m. Wednesday at the Aviation Institute of Maintenance, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokeswoman Lenis Valens said. The Moonachie First Aid & Rescue Squad teamed up with HUMC paramedics to treat the victim befor…
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HIM? Manhunt Intensifies After Girlfriend Is Choked At Route 46 Motel
Authorities sought the public’s help finding a Passaic man who slipped through a dragnet after they said he choked his girlfriend at a Route 46 motel. A relative of the 23-year-old victim phoned South Hackensack police Tuesday night after seeing her injuries during a Facetime chat from the Stagecoach Motel, Capt. Robert Chinchar said. Responding Officers Adam Gambutti and Ashley Lagrosa and Sgt. Carmine Maceri spotted the suspect – 26-year-old Jayson Smith -- parked in the victim’s car at the nearby Travelodge Inn off Huyler Street. Smith bailed when he saw them coming, running toward the …
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: South Hackensack Teen Stabbed Dead By Stepbrother In Fight, Authorities Say
UPDATE: A 16-year-old South Hackensack boy who authorities say stabbed his older stepbrother dead in self-defense was hospitalized with a severe neck injury, Daily Voice has learned. "He's lucky he wasn't paralyzed," a source with direct knowledge of the incident said. No charges had been filed in connection with the stabbing death of Ismael Fajardo, 18, during the confrontation at their Hoffman Street home over the weekend. Police responding to a 911 call found Fajardo bleeding and unresponsive in a second-floor bedroom, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. He's suffered "s…
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: South Hackensack Teen Stabbed Dead By Stepbrother In Fight, Authorities Say
UPDATE: A 16-year-old South Hackensack boy who authorities say stabbed his older stepbrother dead in self-defense was hospitalized with a severe neck injury, Daily Voice has learned. "He's lucky he wasn't paralyzed," a source with direct knowledge of the incident said. No charges had been filed in connection with the stabbing death of Ismael Fajardo, 18, during the confrontation at their Hoffman Street home over the weekend. Police responding to a 911 call found Fajardo bleeding and unresponsive in a second-floor bedroom, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. He's suffered "s…
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: Electrical Explosion Draws Large Response To Hasbrouck Heights Hilton
Firefighters quickly doused an electrical fire that followed a small explosion Friday morning at the Hilton Hotel in Hasbrouck Heights. No injuries were at the evacuated hotel just off northbound Route 17. The explosion occurred in a basement electrical panel at the rear loading area just after 7 a.m., instantly drawing firefighters from Hackensack, Hasbrouck Heights, Little Ferry, Moonachie South Hackensack and Wood-Ridge, responders said. Firefighters doused the blaze, evacuated the hotel, searched for possible victims, then ventilated the building. Guests were allowed to return about tw…
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: Little Ferry Firefighters Rescue Youngster Trapped In House Fire
Two youngsters, one of whom was briefly hanging from a second-floor window, escaped a Little Ferry house blaze Wednesday afternoon, responders said. Both were hospitalized with what responders characterized as minor burns – “nothing major,” one said. Fire Capt. Ryan Romero carried the boy who'd been hanging from the window of the Prospect Avenue home down a ladder during the 3:30 p.m. blaze, they said, adding that a younger girl got out on her own The juveniles – who responders said are between the ages of 10 and 15 – were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center. Firefighters from H…
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Owners Of Burned-Out Little Ferry Pizzeria Vow To Rebuild, Community Offers To Help
Nick and Joann Fytros had only recently bought Zio’s Pizza in Little Ferry, but their family restaurant quickly built a large and devoted customer base – many of whom were offering prayers and donations Thursday to help the couple recover from a crippling fire the night before. “We are beyond devasted,” Joann Fytros wrote in a Facebook morning post, “but as most of you know Nick is a fighter and will come back from this.” Fytros, an EMT with Moonachie First Aid & Rescue Squad, also asked for prayers for a family – a husband, wife, 17-year-old daughter and dog -- who were displaced after…
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: Couple Rescued, Landmark Passaic Deli Destroyed
PASSAIC, N.J. -- Firefighters rescued a couple while battling a four-alarm blaze that destroyed the landmark King of Delancey kosher deli in Passaic early Wednesday. Several firefighters sustained minor injuries, authorities said. No serious injuries were reported. The 5:30 a.m. blaze began in a rear basement of the 3½-story, multi-use building at Main Avenue and Carlton Place and quickly raced upward, collapsing floors, responders said. Joining their Passaic colleagues were firefighters from Carlstadt, East Rutherford, Little Falls, Wallington and Woodland Park, as well as the Moonachie F…
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