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Bergen Grandfather Playing With Child Paralyzed In Fall From Park Slide Bergen Grandfather Playing With Child Paralyzed In Fall From Park Slide
Bergen Grandfather Playing With Child Paralyzed In Fall From Park Slide A Palisades Park grandfather was paralyzed when he fell from a slide while playing with his grandchild at Overpeck County Park in Ridgefield Park, authorities confirmed. The 65-year-old victim was playing with the youngster when he got stuck and fell off the slide shortly before 5 p.m. Monday, Bergen County Sheriff’s Chief of Staff Derek Sands said. “He was breathing, alert, and conscious but was unable to move his body,” Sands said Wednesday. The child wasn’t injured, he said. Palisades Park police and sheriff’s officers responded, along with Englewood Hospital and Medical Center BLS and…

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by Jerry DeMarco