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Pickup Rams Pickup On Hackensack Street It isn't every day (or night) that you see the same vehicle hit another. Hackensack police were investigating an overnight crash in which one Ford F-150 pickup truck slammed into another and landed on its side with its front axle split. The driver climbed out a rear window following the crash on Clay Street, just off Railroad Place, shortly after 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 15, responders said. He was treated at the scene by members of the Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps and Hackensack University Medical Center ALS, they said. City firefighters responded along with police, who were…

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Hackensack Firefighters Make Quick Work Of Late-Night Memorial Day Blaze Hackensack Firefighters Make Quick Work Of Late-Night Memorial Day Blaze
Hackensack Firefighters Make Quick Work Of Late-Night Memorial Day Blaze Hackensack firefighters quickly doused a late-night Memorial Day apartment blaze. The first arriving companies extinguished the second-floor blaze at The Summit on Prospect -- formerly known as the Quail Heights Apartments -- on Prospect Street shortly before 11 p.m. There was smoke and water damage down to the lower level, one tenant said. No injuries were reported. The official cause wasn't immediately determined, although a tenant said she thought it was electrical. No injuries were reported in the Memorial Day fire at the Quail Heights Apartments on Prospect Avenue in Hackensack.D…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police: Hackensack Victim Says 'Really Good Friend' Stabbed Him During Dispute Police: Hackensack Victim Says 'Really Good Friend' Stabbed Him During Dispute
Police: Hackensack Victim Says 'Really Good Friend' Stabbed Him During Dispute An unemployed Hackensack man stabbed another man who claimed that they are “really good friends," in what may have been a misunderstanding, police said. Police responding to a 911 call from a witness found the 29-year-old victim with a small cut on his left side following a fight on Krone Place shortly after 2 a.m. Monday, Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. They then found John Martinez, Jr., 43, wearing blood-spattered shorts in a garage on the property, DeWitt said. Nearby, they found a 13-inch kitchen knife, he said. EMTs with the Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps treated the victi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Firefighters Douse Hackensack Apartment Blaze Firefighters Douse Hackensack Apartment Blaze
Firefighters Douse Hackensack Apartment Blaze Firefighters doused a roaring garden apartment blaze before dawn Saturday. City firefighters had to cut a fence behind the Main Street apartments and enter the property through the Target parking lot to conduct searches and ventilate the roof after the blaze broke out around 1:15 a.m. Firefighters extinguished heavy flames that shot out the window on the first floor and extended to the second. The two-alarm fire was knocked down within 25 minutes and declared under control within an hour. Three minor injuries were reported, including one involving a firefighter who responders said had dif…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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VIDEO: Firefighters Douse Wind-Driven Blaze At Hackensack Cosmetics Factory VIDEO: Firefighters Douse Wind-Driven Blaze At Hackensack Cosmetics Factory
Video: Firefighters Douse Wind-Driven Blaze At Hackensack Cosmetics Factory UPDATE: Hackensack firefighters doused a wind-driven blaze Friday night at a cosmetics factory. The three-alarm fire broke out at Biogenesis on Wysocki Place around 6:15 p.m. and collapsed part of the roof, responders said.  Firefighters knocked the blaze down within a half-hour and continued to battle deep pockets of flame until it was considered under control around 7:20 p.m. A Bergen County Hazardous Materials Unit also responded because of the chemicals inside the truss-roof factory. Other companies responding to the scene or providing coverage included Bogota, Englewood, Teaneck, Ri…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Construction Worker Collapses On 4th-Floor Scaffold Outside HUMC Construction Worker Collapses On 4th-Floor Scaffold Outside HUMC
Construction Worker Collapses On 4th-Floor Scaffold Outside Humc Firefighters, construction workers and staff at Hackensack University Medical Center teamed up to get a worker who’d suffered a medical episode on a scaffold 50 feet above the street inside the building Tuesday morning, responders said. The 30-something worker had been doing heating and ventilation work on the Second Street side of HUMC around 11 a.m. when a co-worker “saw him slouched over, not breathing, and began CPR,” Police Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps who climbed the scaffolding with firefighters continued resuscitation efforts, ci…

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by Jerry DeMarco