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Adult, Three Kids Stricken By CO Poisoning In Hackensack Home Adult, Three Kids Stricken By CO Poisoning In Hackensack Home
Adult, Three Kids Stricken By CO Poisoning In Hackensack Home A holiday season tragedy was avoided Tuesday when a Hackensack woman and three young children were hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning, authorities said. A malfunctioning boiler in their two-family home on Atlantic Street off Railroad Avenue sent all four to Hackensack University Medical Center early on Dec. 6, said Police Capt. Michael Antista, the officer in charge of the city police department. Fortunately, the injuries to the 39-year-old adult and three children -- ages 12, 9 and 5 -- weren't life-threatening, Antista said. Readings of 200 PPM of the colorless, odorless gas were…

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DWI Driver Jailed After Hackensack Police Pursuit Ends In Crash DWI Driver Jailed After Hackensack Police Pursuit Ends In Crash
DWI Driver Jailed After Hackensack Police Pursuit Ends In Crash An Ecuadoran national was drunk when he crashed his Jeep into a traffic signal during a pre-dawn police chase in Hackensack and then took off on foot before dawn Monday, authorities said. Segundo Tapia-Yunganaula, 24, who lives in Hackensack, was speeding down Linden Street when Sgt. Richard Melber tried to stop him shortly after 2 a.m., Detective Lt. Michael Antista said. Tapia-Yunganaula kept going, running several red lights in the process, before stopping at the intersection of Main and Salem streets, Antista said. He then suddenly reversed toward Melber’s vehicle before throwing it in…

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Worker Struck By Steel Beam Rescued From Fourth Floor Of HackensackUMC Construction Site Worker Struck By Steel Beam Rescued From Fourth Floor Of HackensackUMC Construction Site
Worker Struck By Steel Beam Rescued From Fourth Floor Of HackensackUMC Construction Site HEROES: A worker was rescued after he was struck and pinned beneath a steel beam on the fourth floor of a Hackensack University Medical Center construction site on Thursday. With help from the construction company, the victim was secured into a basket by city firefighters and HUMC paramedics and then lowered by a crane after he was struck in the lower extremities by the I-beam at the Atlantic Street construction site shortly after 11 a.m., Hackensack Fire Capt. Justin Derevyanik said. Members of the third platoon Rescue 1, Ladder 1, Engine 2, Deputy 3 Car 2, police and HUMC BLS and ALS…

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by Jerry DeMarco