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Police & Fire
Tanker With Thousands Of Gallons Of Tar Crashes In Hudson Valley Tanker With Thousands Of Gallons Of Tar Crashes In Hudson Valley
Tanker With Thousands Of Gallons Of Tar Crashes In Hudson Valley A sticky situation was averted when a tanker truck carrying 8,000 gallons of tar overturned on a Hudson Valley roadway. Emergency crews in Ulster County were called just after 8 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 8, with reports of an overturned semi-truck with a tanker trailer in the Town of Esopus, at the intersection of Old Post Road and Maple Street. By the time deputies arrived the truck driver, identified as a 58-year-old man from Freehold in Greene County, had extricated himself from the cab, the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office said. He was treated by medics at the scene before being transported b…

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by Michael Mashburn
Schools
Rockland County HS To Go Remote For Months Rockland County HS To Go Remote For Months
Rockland County HS To Go Remote For Months A Hudson Valley high school will be transitioning to its remote learning model for several months due to hazardous materials inside the building. In Rockland County, Clarence Ellis, the Superintendent of Schools for the East Ramapo Central School District announced that the Spring Valley High School will be going remote through January after conducting hazardous materials and air quality testing. Local testing consultant Quality Environmental Solutions & Technologies Inc. was brought in to test the building on Tuesday, Oct. 12, with the results on Thursday, Oct. 14 reporting the presenc…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
High School In Rockland Closed Due To Suspicion Of Hazardous Materials High School In Rockland Closed Due To Suspicion Of Hazardous Materials
High School In Rockland Closed Due To Suspicion Of Hazardous Materials Hazardous materials in classrooms inside a Hudson Valley high school forced officials to shutter the doors of the building and transition students to remote learning. In Rockland County, Spring Valley Schools Superintendent Clarence Ellis issued an alert to the community advising that the district was notified of suspicion of hazardous materials in specific classrooms at the high school, prompting the closure. The district received notification of the situation late on Tuesday, Oct. 12, and posted a notice at approximately 8 p.m. after phone calls were sent to alert parents. In response, …

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
Massive Christmas Morning Fire Destroys Mahwah Building Supply Company Massive Christmas Morning Fire Destroys Mahwah Building Supply Company
Massive Christmas Morning Fire Destroys Mahwah Building Supply Company UPDATE: Authorities reported no casualties in a massive pre-dawn Christmas fire that ripped through a commercial building in Mahwah and continued burning hours after it broke out. What became a five-alarm blaze broke out around 4:40 a.m. at Arzee Building Supply on Franklin Turnpike next to the Ramapo River. Members of all five Mahwah fire companies were assisted by nearly 20 others from surrounding Bergen and Rockland county towns, along with police and EMS units, Police Chief Stephen Jaffe said. Seven elevated streams were in operation in the building, which began to collapse within an …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Fuel Tank Leak Causes Road Closure After Tractor-Trailer Crashes Off Rockland Roadway Fuel Tank Leak Causes Road Closure After Tractor-Trailer Crashes Off Rockland Roadway
Fuel Tank Leak Causes Road Closure After Tractor-Trailer Crashes Off Rockland Roadway A truck driver lost control of his tractor-trailer in Rockland County, crashing off-road and striking a rock, spilling hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel, and forcing a road closure for several hours in Blauvelt. Officers from the Orangetown Police Department received a report shortly before 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 14, when a Freightliner tractor-trailer heading west on Clausland Mountain Road went off-road, crashing onto private property. Police said that due to the collision, two 120 gallon diesel fuel tanks began to leak, along with other fluids from the engine of the tractor-trailer. …

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
Chemical Smell Sickens Workers In Rockland Chemical Smell Sickens Workers In Rockland
Chemical Smell Sickens Workers In Rockland Workers at a Monsey business were treated for dizziness and other ailments after being exposed to a chemical smell that turned out not to be a hazardous material. Spring Valley police responded to the area of 6 Melnick Drive, in Monsey, around 12:40 p.m., on Wednesday, June 19, for a possible hazardous materials situation, said Spring Valley Officer Matthew Galli. A preliminary investigation found that workers in the building were experiencing itchy throats, and dizziness from an unknown liquid coming from the suite above theirs, Galli said. The building was evacuated and th…

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by Kathy Reakes
Police & Fire
Ramsey Man, 24, Killed By Drinking Toxic Mixture Ramsey Man, 24, Killed By Drinking Toxic Mixture
Ramsey Man, 24, Killed By Drinking Toxic Mixture RAMSEY, N.J. -- A 24-year-old Ramsey man died Monday after drinking a toxic cocktail made from mixing a chemical used in airbags with water. It was unclear whether the Peach Hill condominium resident knew that he was drinking sodium azide, responders said, adding that family notifications were made. Sodium azide is described as "a rapidly acting, potentially deadly chemical that exists as an odorless white solid. When it is mixed with water or an acid, sodium azide changes rapidly to a toxic gas with a pungent (sharp) odor." In a car, the chemical explodes when triggered electron…

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by Jerry DeMarco