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Sheriff's K-9 Saves The (Earth) Day In NJ Town After Key Set Is Lost Sheriff's K-9 Saves The (Earth) Day In NJ Town After Key Set Is Lost
Sheriff's K-9 Saves The (Earth) Day In NJ Town After Key Set Is Lost An ad hoc search party was having trouble finding an important set of keys lost during an Earth Day cleanup in Elmwood Park, so Police Chief Michael Foligno called on the experts. Borough police had organized the community cleanup involving their officers, DPW and Recreation Department workers and Foligno's administrative assistant, Angela Fava on Friday, April 22. They were about an hour into the job along the Susquehanna Railroad tracks when Fava lost the keys to her house and job in some thick brush along the tracks, said Foligno, who's also the borough administrator. "The crew switche…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Fire Investigators Examine Fort Lee House Blaze Fire Investigators Examine Fort Lee House Blaze
Fire Investigators Examine Fort Lee House Blaze Firefighters contained a Fort Lee house blaze to a front bedroom after a passing lieutenant saw smoke. Fire Lt. Phil Craddock was driving on the Route 1&9 overpass around 4:45 p.m. Monday when he spotted the smoke coming from the two-story home at 2068 Jones Road just below. Firefighters knocked the blaze down in under a half hour. No injuries were reported. The rest of the house beyond the fire room sustained smoke, water and ventilation damage. The borough Volunteer Ambulance Squad remained on standby. Borough police also responded, along with DPW workers who salted the street and t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Homeless Man Found Frozen To Death In Vacant North Jersey Building ID'd Homeless Man Found Frozen To Death In Vacant North Jersey Building ID'd
Homeless Man Found Frozen To Death In Vacant North Jersey Building ID'd UPDATE: The family of a homeless Guatemalan immigrant found frozen to death in a vacant apartment in Cliffside Park won’t be able to bring his body home, friends say. A concerned friend who hadn’t seen him went to check the Palisade Avenue building near the Fairview border where Jorge Adalberto Roca had been staying with nearly a dozen other squatters, authorities said. Like him, Roca’s wife had suffered from severe alcoholism Roca’s wife, Virginia, died from alcoholism three months ago. Their children were placed with a caretaker in Fairview. That left Roca – an undocumented immigrant fro…

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Homeless Man Found Frozen To Death In NJ Garage, Companion Hospitalized Homeless Man Found Frozen To Death In NJ Garage, Companion Hospitalized
Homeless Man Found Frozen To Death In NJ Garage, Companion Hospitalized A 35-year-old homeless man was found frozen to death and his companion barely alive Friday morning in a Palisades Park municipal parking garage, authorities said. The male companion was in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit at Hackensack University Medical Center, they said. A DPW crew found the pair sleeping on a mattress and called police at 9:40 a.m., said Capt. Anthony Espino, the officer in charge of the department. The Bergen County Medical Examiner found no signs of foul play and said the cause of death was hypothermia. Temperatures dropped into the mid-teens overnight w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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HEROES: Englewood Police, Firefighters, Dispatcher DPW Workers Save Lives HEROES: Englewood Police, Firefighters, Dispatcher DPW Workers Save Lives
Heroes: Englewood Police, Firefighters, Dispatcher DPW Workers Save Lives A police officer who was nearly killed when a gunman dragged him with a car, a trio of men in blue who revived a heart attack victim along with a group of firefighters who rescued a man overcome by freon fumes and two DPW workers who freed a trapped elderly driver are among several Englewood first responders recently honored for their heroism. Police Officer Anthony Gallo had stopped two upstate New York men in a car last year when the driver ran off. Gallo bolted after him while Officer Maciej Mlynaryk dealt with a front-seat passenger -- who got into the driver’s seat and hit the gas. Ha…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Snapped Tree Limb Clips Hawthorne Home Snapped Tree Limb Clips Hawthorne Home
Snapped Tree Limb Clips Hawthorne Home A tree limb fell outside a Hawthorne home Tuesday morning, taking some utility wires with it. No one was injured after the tree missed hitting the Diamond Bridge Avenue house flush, nicking the corner of the roof instead. Hawthorne police and DPW workers responded, along with PSE&G. At the scene on Diamond Bridge Avenue early Tuesday.Michael Jannicelli for DAILY VOICE No one was injured.Michael Jannicelli for DAILY VOICE Michael Jannicelli took the photos and contributed to this report.

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by Jerry DeMarco