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Tuesday, nov 5
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Police & Fire
21-Year-Old Jumps From Tappan Zee Bridge
This story has been updated. A 21-year-old man jumped midspan from the new Tappan Zee Bridge and was rescued from the water. The incident occurred on the Westchester/Rockland County border around 2:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 13. According to the Tarrytown Fire Department, the Marine 5 crew responded within minutes, equipped with rescue swimmers onboard. The crew quickly located the victim in the water, loaded the man into the boat, and brought them back to the Tarrytown Marina. The department said they were cared for by EMS there before being transferred to Westchester Medical Center in…
Police & Fire
Stranded Jersey Shore Jet Skiers Rescued By
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Copter, US Coast Guard
New Jersey State Police and staff members from University Hospital rescued three jet skiers who were stranded in a marshy area on the Jersey Shore. Troopers from the Marine Services Bureau were dispatched to a marsh near the Ocean City Airport around 8:20 p.m. Wednesday, when the mother of one called in the situation to police, New Jersey State Police said. Sergeant First Class Rodney Goodson, of the State Police Point Pleasant Station, was familiar with the area and determined that it would take too long to get an airboat to the location. The tide had just went out and there was a t…
Police & Fire
Rochelle Park PD: Hit-Run Driver Ends Up Hospitalized After Wading Through Frigid River
A driver who tried to elude Rochelle Park police by wading through a frigid brook after crashing a vehicle ended up hospitalized and in custody instead, authorities said. Thomas Overton, 18, of the Bronx nearly struck the owner whose car he’d just hit at the intersection of Berdan Street and South Drive as he fled the scene shortly after 5:30 p.m. Monday, Lt. James M. DePreta said. Responding police found his abandoned Nissan Rogue – with no license plates -- at the end of dead-ended Chestnut Street soon after, DePreta said. Witnesses who provided cellphone and home surveillance video told…
Police & Fire
'Lucky To Be Alive': Young Man Found Frozen Solid In Lakewood Forest
A young Jewish man who went missing in Lakewood Sunday evening was found alive Monday morning inside a wooded area, so cold he was unable to move. The man, believed to be 18 years old, was dropped off by friends at a Drake Road Yeshiva Sunday evening, The Lakewood Scoop reports. But when the friends went back to pick him up, he'd gone missing, the outlet says. A massive search utilizing a police K9 was launched and, around 10 a.m. Monday, the man was found approximately 300 feet inside a wooded area off of Whitesville Road, the article says. The young man was not wearing a jacket when he …
News
Homeless Man Found Frozen To Death In Palisades Park Garage, Companion Hospitalized
A 35-year-old homeless man was found frozen to death and his companion barely alive Friday morning in a Palisades Park municipal parking garage, authorities said. The male companion was in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit at Hackensack University Medical Center, they said. A DPW crew found the pair sleeping on a mattress and called police at 9:40 a.m., said Capt. Anthony Espino, the officer in charge of the department. The Bergen County Medical Examiner found no signs of foul play and said the cause of death was hypothermia. Temperatures dropped into the mid-teens overnight w…
Police & Fire
Pennsylvania Construction Worker Dies When Machinery Falls Into Icy NJ Waters For One Hour
A construction worker from Pennsylvania died when the machine he was operating fell into frigid Linden waters, trapping him inside for nearly an hour Thursday morning, according to officials and news reports. Fire and police units responded to a construction site at 4900 Tremley Point Road, where the excavator had fallen into the Arthur Kill River Channel -- the operator inside a small pocket of air around 8 a.m., Linden police said in a release. The man was removed from the machine cab sometime around 9 a.m. by NYPD aviation divers. The construction worker was rushed to Trinitas Regio…
Police & Fire
Kayaker Rescued From Water Off Bayonne
Rescuers pulled a kayaker from the water in Bayonne late Saturday afternoon. The victim, who responders said was alert and suffering from hypothermia, was taken to Bayonne Medical Center after being rescued off Lefante Way while holding on to the kayak around 5 p.m. “At 4:35 p.m. [Saturday], the Bayonne Fire Department was dispatched to a report of a kayaker in distress on the east side waterways," Bayonne Fire Chief Keith Weaver said. "Responding firefighters found a kayaker clinging to his vessel in the middle of the inlet that separates the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor (former MOT)…
Police & Fire
13-Year-Old Boy Dies After Falling Through Ice On East Brunswick Pond
Despite an heroic rescue effort by police and firefighters, a 13-year-old boy died after falling through the ice Wednesday night on an East Brunswick pond, authorities said. Yusef Khela was playing with two other children near police headquarters on Civic Center Drive when they all fell in shortly before 5 p.m., township police said. Two got out of the water, but the third became trapped. Yusef's friends quickly summoned police, who created a human chain to try and rescue the boy, "but he slipped under the ice before they could reach him," the department said in a release. Firefighters e…
Police & Fire
Morris County Hiker Dies Climbing Mount Washington
A 63-year-old woman from Morris County died attempting to climb Mount Washington, authorities said. Sandra Lee of Mount Tabor was hiking up the Tuckerman Ravine Trail in sub-zero temperatures with two family members when she suffered symptoms of hypothermia around 2:30 p.m. Thursday, New Hampshire Fish and Game law enforcement said in a statement. Her family members called 9-1-1 when they got above the junction of Lion Head Trail and Tuckerman Ravine Trail. Windchills of 12 degrees with gusts up to 60 miles-per-hour were reported. "When Park staff arrived on the scene, they gave warm…
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! Search Team Finds Hopatcong Man Reported Missing By Wife
UPDATE: A search-and-rescue team that numbered in the dozens on Saturday found a 34-year-old Hopatcong man whose wife reported him missing the night before. Kevin Fawthrop was hospitalized for hypothermia after members of the Ramapo Search and Rescue Team and co-workers from Blue Diamond Waste Removal found him in a heavily wooded area about a mile and a half from his home, responders said. "He was confused, disoriented and hypothermia had set in," Hopatcong police said. Also participating in the five-square-mile search were Hopatcong police and firefighters, Jefferson firefighters, the Su…
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