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BRAVO! Fifth-Generation Police Officer From Mahwah Revives Stricken Opera Veteran BRAVO! Fifth-Generation Police Officer From Mahwah Revives Stricken Opera Veteran
Bravo! Fifth-Generation Police Officer From Mahwah Revives Stricken Opera Veteran LOCAL HERO: Veteran Metropolitan Opera singer Richard Bernstein was having chest pains when a fifth-generation police officer who’d only just hit the street in Mahwah responded to a call at his home. Then Bernstein stopped breathing. Turns out Officer Joseph Powderley got there just in time. The tenor of the situation became grave as the Grammy-winning father of three went into cardiac arrest, his face turning blue, in his master bedroom. Powderley placed Bernstein on the floor and began chest compressions, Mahwah Police Capt. Guido Bussinelli said. The officer then shocked him with a de…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NEVER ENDS: Firefighters Extricate Driver After Yet Another Truck Crashes On Route 287 NEVER ENDS: Firefighters Extricate Driver After Yet Another Truck Crashes On Route 287
Never Ends: Firefighters Extricate Driver After Yet Another Truck Crashes On Route 287 Mahwah firefighters rescued a trucker who was pinned late Monday afternoon in yet another crash on a treacherous stretch of Route 287 near the New York State border. The dump truck carrying a load of gravel plowed through a metal guardrail on the rain-soaked northbound highway's center median between Campgaw Road and Darlington Avenue shortly before 3:30 p.m. on 9/11, responders said. The rig tipped over and landed with its cab in the southbound lanes, trapping the driver -- who was alert but had a gash on his forehead. Firefighters worked for nearly an hour to free him from the wreckage…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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HEROES: Mahwah Police Resuscitate Rockland Teen At Ramapo Reservation HEROES: Mahwah Police Resuscitate Rockland Teen At Ramapo Reservation
Heroes: Mahwah Police Resuscitate Rockland Teen At Ramapo Reservation A drowning teen from Rockland was resuscitated by Mahwah police after his friends pulled him from a lake in the Ramapo mountains, authorities said. The 17-year-old Spring Valley boy was surrounded by his friends when Mahwah Police Officers Nicholas Williams, Ryan Moore, Connor Gilgen, Luke Rice and Liam Kantanas reached the upper lake at the Ramapo Reservation around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 5, Capt. Guido Bussinelli said. He was unresponsive from all the water he’d ingested but had a pulse, the captain said. The boy apparently had jumped into the lake, began to struggle and was underwate…

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Firefighters Douse Mahwah Basement Blaze Near Rockland Border Firefighters Douse Mahwah Basement Blaze Near Rockland Border
Firefighters Douse Mahwah Basement Blaze Near Rockland Border Firefighters battled heat exhaustion along with a basement blaze Wednesday night in Mahwah. No serious injuries were reported in the fire, which broke out shortly before 8 p.m. in the two-story home on dead-ended Storrs Court off East Crescent Road near the Rockland County border. Firefighters had the blaze knocked down within a half-hour. The cause wasn't immediately determined. Mutual aid at the scene or in coverage included firefighters from Ramsey, Wyckoff, Hillburn, Sloatsburg, Suffern and Tallman, as well as Mahwah police and EMS.

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UPDATE: Bergen Man, 21, Who Drowned In Lake Was With Friend From Hudson UPDATE: Bergen Man, 21, Who Drowned In Lake Was With Friend From Hudson
Update: Bergen Man, 21, Who Drowned In Lake Was With Friend From Hudson A Hudson County man who drowned despite an intense effort by rescuers to save him at a closed swimming lake at Darlington County Park in Mahwah didn't know how to swim, friends and loved ones said. Loved ones, neighbors and others have been trying to comfort the family of Kevin Acevedo at the 51st Street apartment in Weehawken where he'd lived his entire life. Kevin had just turned 21 two weeks ago, they said. He and his friend, Andrew Florez, 20, also of Weehawken, weren't supposed to be in the lake, which is open for swimming only on weekends this time of year, Bergen County Sheriff's Pu…

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Young Man Drowns At Closed Lake In Mahwah Young Man Drowns At Closed Lake In Mahwah
Young Man Drowns At Closed Lake In Mahwah A Hudson County man who drowned despite an intense effort by rescuers to save him at a closed swimming lake at Darlington County Park in Mahwah didn't know how to swim, friends and loved ones said. Loved ones, neighbors and others have been trying to comfort the family of Kevin Acevedo at the 51st Street apartment in Weehawken where he'd lived his entire life. Kevin had just turned 21 two weeks ago, they said. He and his friend, Andrew Florez, 20, also of Weehawken, weren't supposed to be in the lake, which is open for swimming only on weekends this time of year, Bergen County Sheriff's P…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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'It's A Tragedy': Former Mahwah Councilman, 52, Dies Of Injuries In Ladder Fall 'It's A Tragedy': Former Mahwah Councilman, 52, Dies Of Injuries In Ladder Fall
'It's A Tragedy': Former Mahwah Councilman, 52, Dies Of Injuries In Ladder Fall UPDATE: A Mahwah attorney who fell 15 or so feet from a ladder while painting and repairing his grandmother's home two weeks earlier died of his injuries Tuesday, friends said. Alan Kidd, a 52-year-old former township councilman, "cared deeply about Mahwah and its residents," Mayor John Roth said Wednesday. "It's a tragedy." Kidd was working on the house when the mishap occurred on a busy stretch of Franklin Turnpike near Stephens Lane on Oct. 8. A companion at the scene told police they both were "doing painting and repairs to the second level of the two-story home from ladders," Police C…

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Mayor: Former Mahwah Councilman, 52, Seriously Injured In Ladder Fall Mayor: Former Mahwah Councilman, 52, Seriously Injured In Ladder Fall
Mayor: Former Mahwah Councilman, 52, Seriously Injured In Ladder Fall A Mahwah attorney who fell 15 or so feet from a ladder while painting and repairing a home early Tuesday afternoon was breathing but unconscious when taken to the hospital, responders said. Alan Kidd, a 52-year-old former township councilman, was working on the house his grandmother lives in when the mishap occurred on a busy stretch of Franklin Turnpike near Stephens Lane, Mayor John Roth told Daily Voice. A companion at the scene told police that they both were "doing painting and repairs to the second level of the two-story home from ladders," Police Chief Stephen Jaffe said. "Although h…

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by Jerry DeMarco