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NJ House Explosion: Search-And-Rescue Operation Saves Family Members, Friends (UPDATE) NJ House Explosion: Search-And-Rescue Operation Saves Family Members, Friends (UPDATE)
NJ House Explosion: Search-And-Rescue Operation Saves Family Members, Friends (Update) HEROES: Everyone feared the worst. Yet if there’s a silver lining to be found in a devastating house explosion in West Milford on Friday, it’s that rescuers got those involved out alive. That includes a victim who was trapped for nearly an hour as firefighters tunneled their way into the leveled single-story ranch house. Five of those injured were airlifted to area hospitals following the dramatic search and rescue operation. A sixth declined further medical attention at the scene. Investigations continued combing through the wreckage well past daybreak as they try to determine what cause…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Out-Of-Control Sedan Driven By Woman, 91, Kills Man, 80, In Saddle Brook UPDATE: Out-Of-Control Sedan Driven By Woman, 91, Kills Man, 80, In Saddle Brook
Update: Out-Of-Control Sedan Driven By Woman, 91, Kills Man, 80, In Saddle Brook UPDATE: An out-of-control sedan driven by a 91-year-old woman struck and killed an 80-year-old man outside at a Saddle Brook shopping center just after noon Thursday. The driver was pulling into a parking spot when the Chevy jumped the curb and hit a pillar outside the Spencer Savings Bank at the Terra Mini Mall, spinning the sedan around, a witness told Daily Voice. She then accelerated for some reason, knocking down the victim and dragging him into a garbage can and a second pillar. He was killed instantly. "It looked like she didn't know she hit him at first," a witness told Daily…

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by Jerry DeMarco & Cecilia Levine
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UPDATE: Out-Of-Control Sedan Driven By Woman, 91, Strikes, Kills Man, 80, In Saddle Brook UPDATE: Out-Of-Control Sedan Driven By Woman, 91, Strikes, Kills Man, 80, In Saddle Brook
Update: Out-Of-Control Sedan Driven By Woman, 91, Strikes, Kills Man, 80, In Saddle Brook UPDATE: An out-of-control sedan driven by a 91-year-old woman struck and killed an 80-year-old man outside at a Saddle Brook shopping center just after noon Thursday. The driver was pulling into a parking spot when the Chevy jumped the curb and hit a pillar outside the Spencer Savings Bank at the Terra Mini Mall, spinning the sedan around, a witness told Daily Voice. She then accelerated for some reason, knocking down the victim and dragging him into a garbage can and a second pillar. He was killed instantly. "It looked like she didn't know she hit him at first," a witness told Daily…

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by Jerry DeMarco & Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Firefighters Extricate SUV Driver In Teaneck Bridge Crash Firefighters Extricate SUV Driver In Teaneck Bridge Crash
Firefighters Extricate SUV Driver In Teaneck Bridge Crash An elderly woman was hospitalized with a compound ankle fracture after her SUV slammed into a concrete footbridge post in Teaneck early Monday afternoon. The woman apparently lost control of the Ford on Windsor Road across from the Benjamin Franklin Middle School and it slammed into the post around 12:45 p.m., Battalion Chief Paul Kearns said. Members of Hackensack Rescue helped Teaneck firefighters extricate the woman, who was traveling alone, Kearn said. She was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center. The driver was extricated and taken to HUMC with injuries that responders s…

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by Cecilia Levine