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HEROES: Trio Of NJ Officers Rescue Trapped Driver From Burning Car HEROES: Trio Of NJ Officers Rescue Trapped Driver From Burning Car
Heroes: Trio Of NJ Officers Rescue Trapped Driver From Burning Car Flames are rapidly spreading as Ridgefield Park police officers furiously try to pull a trapped Fort Lee driver from his burning sedan, dramatic bodycam video shows. An electrical malfunction ignited the front of 55-year-old Christopher Vagnone’s Honda Accord outside Mavis Discount Tire on Route 46 (Winant Avenue) shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday, Police Chief Joseph Rella said. Unable to open the car doors, Sgt. Nicholas Triano retrieved a Halligan bar and smashed the driver’s side window, the chief said. Bodycam footage shows Ridgefield Park police officers pulling a Fort Lee driver f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Heroes: Ridgefield Park Police Revive Two OD Victims At Once Heroes: Ridgefield Park Police Revive Two OD Victims At Once
Heroes: Ridgefield Park Police Revive Two OD Victims At Once Ridgefield Park police revived two overdose victims with Narcan at the same time. A frantic, screaming companion led responding Sgt. William Morton and Officers Brian Ooms and Chris Beirne into the Park Street apartment shortly before 11:30 p.m. Thursday, Police Chief Joseph Rella said. In the bedroom they found a limp 32-year-old woman face down and turning blue, the chief said. As two of the officers administered Narcan, the other looked for any drugs or paraphernalia that would help assess her condition. That's when he found an unconscious 30-year-old male victim, also f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SEE ANYTHING? Ridgefield Park Police Memorial Vandalized, Tips Sought SEE ANYTHING? Ridgefield Park Police Memorial Vandalized, Tips Sought
SEE Anything? Ridgefield Park Police Memorial Vandalized, Tips Sought Authorities sought the public's help finding the coward or cowards who vandalized a memorial to a Ridgefield Park police officer killed in the line of duty 100 years ago. The monument to village Officer John Ritter was spray-painted in red sometime between 8 and 10:45 a.m. this past Friday, July 17, Police Chief Joseph Rella said. Police are hoping someone either passed by, saw something suspicious -- or, better yet, has a surveillance camera in the area of the island at Euclid Avenue and Poplar Street that may have captures useful images. ****** ANYONE WHO HAS ANY photos or information …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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GRUESOME: NJ Woman Slain, Dumped In Creek, Young Daughter, BF In Custody GRUESOME: NJ Woman Slain, Dumped In Creek, Young Daughter, BF In Custody
Gruesome: NJ Woman Slain, Dumped In Creek, Young Daughter, BF In Custody A 19-year-old Lodi man was charged Monday with killing a Cresskill woman whose 14-year-old daughter assisted in a bungled attempt to dispose of the body, authorities said. Nicolas Coirazza killed Divna Rosasco, 51, at her home in Cresskill and then got the girl to help him try to dump the body in Overpeck Creek in Teaneck, authorities said. The girl's father had reported the woman missing around 12:20 p.m. Monday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. A Bergen County sheriff's officer on patrol in Overpeck Park off Fort Lee Road later found Rosasco's SUV (see photo below) parked nea…

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by Jerry DeMarco