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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 Dramatic bodycam video shows Ridgefield Park police pulling a trapped Fort Lee driver from his burning sedan. 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. Officers Anthony D'Elia and Nicholas D'Alto joined him in trying to remove Vagnone through the window, but the intense flames and heat pushed…

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by Jerry DeMarco