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Millions Of Baby Shark Bath Toys Recalled Due To Injury Risk For Children
Doo doo doo not let your kids use these Baby Shark toys. Toymaker Zuru announced that it is recalling 7.5 million Baby Shark and Mini Baby Shark bath toys that have hard plastic top fins that pose a risk of "impalement, laceration, and puncture injuries," according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Officials said that a child using the toys, specifically in a bathtub or wading pool, run the risk of slipping, falling, and landing on the point of the plastic toys. The recall involves both full-size Robo Alive Junior Baby Shark Sing & Swim bath toys, which sing and swim in the …
Police & Fire
Drowning Child Rescued By Officer: Essex County Sheriff's Office
An Essex County Sheriff's Officer played the role of hero on Monday evening, June 19. At Branch Brook Park, a mother noticed her 4-year-old child was missing and notified a police officer, the Essex County Sheriff's Office said. Officers began a search of the area and eventually the mother found her child's scooter near the roadway adjacent to a lake by the boathouse, police said. The mother then saw her daughter was unresponsive and submerged in the lake, police said. The mother and officer jumped in to rescue the child and the officer began performing CPR, police said. The child was take…
Police & Fire
Update
: Knife-Wielding Woman Slashes BF In Fair Lawn, Flees With Son, 4
UPDATE: A 22-year-old Ridgewood woman had her 4-year-old son in the back seat when she slashed her boyfriend with a knife in her car Thursday night in Fair Lawn, authorities confirmed. Trinity Rodriguez fled the parking lot of Fairlawn Industries, leaving the victim behind, but was nabbed by borough police a few blocks away, they said. The victim, 27, from Garfield, held a gauze pad to his bleeding arm while talking with responding officers on the other side of Maple Avenue from the Craftsman restaurant around 7:45 p.m. May 18. He eventually got into a Fair Lawn ambulance and was taken to…
Police & Fire
Thief Steals Vehicle With Sleeping Infant Inside In Essex County: Sheriff
An infant was reunited with his father after a thief jumped behind the wheel of a vehicle he was sleeping in on Monday, Nov. 14 in Essex County, authorities said. The thief stole the car from the area of Joyce Street and Scotland Road in Orange, around 5:50 p.m., moments before the baby's parent called 911, Essex County Sheriff Armando B. Fontoura said. A Sheriff’s Officer responded and found the vehicle in the middle of the street on Conover Terrace. He then checked the vehicle for occupants and saw the child asleep in a car seat. The baby was evaluated by St. Clare’s EMS, found …
News
Seesaw App Used By Elementary Schools Sends
Nsfw
Photos To Parents In Apparent Nationwide Hack
Elementary schools across the US are urging parents to not open the messages on the Seesaw app after an apparent hack sent out "inappropriate" images starting on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. "The platform was hacked and is experiencing a nationwide issue where some school district families and teachers were receiving links/URLs to inappropriate images," officials at a Schodock elementary school in New York said on its website. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Seesaw (@seesawlearning) Most schools are simply asking parents and guard…
Police & Fire
2-Year-Old Child Struck By Train At NJ Amusement Park
A 2-year-old child was airlifted to a hospital after being struck by a train at a Warren County amusement park Saturday, Aug. 20, authorities said. The child was flown in critical condition after the incident at the Land of Make Believe in Hope Township around 1:05 p.m., New Jersey State Police Sgt. Philip Curry said. The incident remains under investigation. In Summer 2020, a woman was airlifted from the same amusement park in a water slide accident, as previously reported by Daily Voice. The amusement park on Great Meadows Road was transformed from a dairy farm in 1954.
News
'Unfortunate Accident': Englewood Driver Who Hit Girl, 6, On Maywood Street Not At Fault: Chief
UPDATE: A crash that critically injured a 6-year-old girl whose family had just moved to Maywood was a "serious and unfortunate accident" and not the fault of the 25-year-old driver from Englewood, the borough's police chief said. A delivery van that had stopped in front of a house on Spring Valley Road across from Memorial Park around noon Monday had obstructed the driver's view when the child ran out into the street, Maywood Police Chief Terence R. Kenny said Tuesday. Witnesses said the southbound Honda Civic knocked the youngster into the air. "The driver stopped immediately and remain…
News
Update
: Drowning Baby Pulled From Backyard Paramus Pool Transferred To Mount Sinai
UPDATE: A 1-year-old boy was clinging to life after his mother pulled him from their backyard pool in Paramus, authorities said. Officers rushed to an emergency call at the Beechwood Drive home shortly before 7 p.m. Monday and found the woman conducting CPR, responders said. The officers took over the life-saving measure for about 20 minutes, they said. Paramus EMS -- escorted by police -- then took the infant to the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, where a pulse was restored, Deputy Paramus Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. The baby was later transferred to Mt. Sinai Hospital in …
News
Update
: 7-Year-Old City Girl Who Drowned In Rented Teaneck Backyard Pool Was Reported Missing
UPDATE: A 7-year-old Newark girl had been reported missing before she was found drowned over the weekend in a backyard Teaneck pool that its owners rent out for parties, authorities said. Officers and neighbors were searching for the girl after she'd been reported missing early Sunday evening, Teaneck Police Chief Glenn O'Reilly said. They found her at the bottom of the in-ground pool on Westervelt Place near Teaneck Road shortly after 6 p.m., the chief said. The officers conducted CPR, then escorted an ambulance to Holy Name Medical Center, where the child was pronounced dead at 7:22 p.m…
Lifestyle
13K Baby Push Walkers Recalled Over Strangulation Hazard
More than 13,000 baby walkers that were sold nationwide are being recalled due to possible strangulation risk. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that Asweets is recalling Wonder & Wise Baby Activity four-wheel walkers because rubber rings on the rear wheels can separate, detach, and pose a hazard for young children. According to CPSC, the wooden push walkers have a panel of interactive toys and activities for babies. The recalled walkers are white with black and wood-colored accents, a front panel with a shape-sorting puzzle, bead activities, other wooden toys, …
Police & Fire
Near
Drowning
: Boy Unresponsive After Ocean City Lifeguards Pull 3 From Rip Current
One of three children was hospitalized in serious condition after being rescued by lifeguards from a rip current in Ocean City Saturday, May 21, NJ Advance Media reports The 12-year-old Mays Landing boy was "breathing on his own but unresponsive," when he and the two other children from Hammonton were saved by beach patron off 10th Street around noon, the outlet said citing local officials. He was rushed to the trauma center at Cooper University Hospital, while the other two were taken to Shore Medical Center as a precaution, NJ.com says. Click here for more from NJ Adv…
News
Young Child Airlifted To Hospital After Near-Drowning In Bergen Backyard Pool
A young child was airlifted to Hackensack University Medical Center after nearly drowning in a backyard pool in Mahwah late Wednesday afternoon. The boy, 3, was breathing on his own but unconscious when first responders arrived at the Wyckoff Avenue home near the Ramsey border. He regained consciousness, however, and was picked up by AirMed 1 at the nearby George Washington School field, witnesses said. No further information was immediately available.
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