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Saturday, apr 27
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Vehicle Rescue
Police & Fire
Officers Rescue Pair Neck-Deep In Freezing Waters As Car Plunges Into Pequannock Pond:
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Newly released footage from the Pequannock Police Department shows the “truly amazing rescue” of a driver and passenger after their car plunged into a local pond, leaving the pair neck-deep in frozen waters. The rescue occurred at the retention pond at Cedar Crest Village on the evening of Sunday, April 2. Officers responded and found a vehicle submerged almost completely in the water. Photo and video footage of the rescue shows Sgt. Dericks, Ptl. Parigi and Ptl. Knatz pulling the driver and passenger to safety “as the murky water was filling the vehicle,” the department said as it was rel…
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Heroes
: Ridgefield Park Officers Rescue Trapped Driver In 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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Driver Seriously Injured In Fair Lawn Crash
A driver was hospitalized with serious injuries following a crash Monday in Fair Lawn that forced firefighters to cut a steel fence to free her. No other injuries were reported in the two-vehicle crash on Morlot Avenue at Philip Street. A paramedic team from The Valley Hospital assisted members of the Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance Squad. Fair Lawn Rescue Squad members cut part of the fence to free the driver.Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE Both the Toyota Avalon and the other vehicle had to be towed after members of the Fair Lawn Heavy Rescue Squad cut the fence to free the sedan. B…
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Heroes
: Good Samaritans, Police Rescue Driver Whose SUV Plunged Into Passaic River
A motorist was rescued by a family of good Samaritans and Nutley police after he drove his SUV into the Passaic River as high tide rolled in. The rescuers jumped in and got the driver out after the vehicle plunged down the boat ramp north of the Kingsland Avenue Bridge, which connects Nutley and Lyndhurst, shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday, responders said. The SUV then became submerged in 10 feet of water about 100 feet or so from shore, they said. The Lyndhurst Fire Department deployed a rescue diver who searched the vehicle and immediate area and found no additional victims. The vehicle …
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Heroes
: Port Authority PD, Tunnel And Bridge Agents Rescue Dangling Baby In GWB SUV Crash
A 14-month-old boy was dangling from his car seat, held in place by the straps, after an SUV ended up precariously perched on two wheels against the divider of the approach to the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee. The boy’s mother and another adult were cushioned by the Chevy Equinox’s airbags, but the vehicle itself was unstable. Port Authority police and tunnel and bridge agents had to get the diaper-clad child out. Once they did, Officer TJ McPike wrapped the boy in his uniform shirt and passed him off to Officer Greg Rose, who comforted the youngster until his mother was rescued. …
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Driver, 27, Extricated After Multi-Vehicle Garden State Parkway Pileup
UPDATE: A driver had to be extricated following a pre-dawn multi-vehicle pileup Saturday on the rainy Garden State Parkway in Clifton. The 27-year-old victim was taken to the trauma unit at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson after his Nissan Sentra overturned in the five-vehicle, chain-reaction crash near Exit 153B around 4:50 a.m. There was no immediate word on other injuries, although his appeared the most serious. Firefighters freed the driver of the overturned Nissan Sentra.CHRIS LEON (Bergen Brookside Auto Body and Towing, Inc.) The vehicle may have been caused by a …
Police & Fire
Video Shows NJ Officer Risking His Life On Thanksgiving To Save Driver From Burning Car
A heart-stopping video posted by a Middlesex County police department shows an officer running out of his car to rescue a driver from a burning vehicle in a Thanksgiving Day crash. The 3-minute and 40-second dashcam tape shows Monroe Township officer Douglas Perrone jumping out of his vehicle to Pergola Avenue near Namsan Drive around 8:40 p.m., and running straight to the fully-engulfed Ford Fusion -- the driver trapped inside. Perrone tried using his fire extinguisher to put out the blaze, but when that wasn't working, he climbed inside of the vehicle and pulled the driver from the …
Police & Fire
Video
: Hopatcong Officers Rescue Man, Dog Trapped In Vehicle After Rollover Crash
The moment officers rescued a man trapped in his vehicle after a rollover accident in Hopatcong was captured in an action-packed video. Officers were called to the area of Nariticong Avenue and Beacon Road for a smoking vehicle that had been involved in a rollover accident, trapping the driver on Wednesday, August 12, authorities said in a release. Despite the heavy smoke coming from the engine compartment, officers were able to cut the driver free and remove him from the vehicle, authorities said. Officers can be seen in the video carrying the man to safety. The officers also successfull…
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Heroes
: Good Samaritan Dives Into Frigid Passaic River To Rescue Woman In Sinking Sedan
A young woman whose car rolled off Route 21 into the Passaic River was rescued Monday morning by a Good Samaritan who pulled her from her sinking sedan and a police officer who threw them a lifeline, responders said. "She was going north on Route 21 around 10:30 [a.m.] when she lost control and the car went over the guardrail," one said. "It flipped three or four times and landed in the river." A Belleville police officer arrived as the passerby jumped in. He threw them a safety preserver ring and pulled both to shore, a local police officer said. Dive teams from Lyndhurst, Wallington, N…
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Rainstorm
: Fair Lawn, Elmwood Park Firefighters Rescue Stranded Car Occupants
Fair Lawn firefighters, with help from their Elmwood Park colleagues, rescued the occupants of a sedan stranded by Saturday's flash flooding. Fair Lawn police joined the responders under the NJ Transit trestle on eastbound Broadway around 5 p.m. No one required medical attention, responders said. A tow truck retrieved the soaked sedan. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this account. ****** (ALSO SEE) VIDEOS: A rushing torrent of muddy water during Saturday's rainstorm sent vehicles floating and crashing into one another at a Route 46 dealership in Little Falls. https://northpassaic.dailyvo…
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Heroes
: Garfield Police Officers Pull Unconscious Driver From Burning Car
GARFIELD, N.J. – Two Garfield police officers broke the windows of a smoke-filled car that had just struck a dozen parked vehicles and pulled the unconscious driver to safety overnight Tuesday, authorities said. It was unclear when or why the 61-year-old Clifton motorist passed out when Officers Daniel Taylor and Marvin Monroig found his 2000 Ford Explorer on fire on MacArthur Avenue just before 2 a.m. It had just crashed into the rear of a parked vehicle and was on fire, Capt. Darren Sucorowski said. “The officers broke the windows and forced open the door to gain entry to the vehicle as …
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