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Woman Seeking Cherry Hill EMT Who Saved Her Life In Crash 20 Years Ago
Beth Mazgajewski is fully healed from the crash that nearly took her life 20 years ago in every way except for one. She hasn't been able to stop thinking about the Cherry Hill EMT who saved her life. Mazgajewski recently took to Facebook to seek out the off-duty responder, calling the attempt to find him a "long shot." Mazgajewski says she was broadsided while trying to make a left turn on Haddonfield-Berlin Road exiting the TD Bank parking lot next to Vito’s pizza on Sept. 22, 2001. Well, I did not expect this post to get the attention it did but getting more eyes on it can’t hurt. …
Police & Fire
Hero
: State Trooper Saves Unconscious Man At Garden State Parkway Service Area
A New Jersey State Trooper performed life-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a 44-year-old man who collapsed and stopped breathing at a service area on the Garden State Parkway in Central Jersey, authorities said. At about 5 p.m. on Friday, Trooper John Taggart, of Troop “D” Holmdel Station, was dispatched to a 9-1-1 call for a man who reportedly suffered a medical episode and collapsed in the bathroom of the Monmouth Service Area in Wall Township, state police said. When Taggart arrived, he found the man lying on the floor unconscious and not breathing. After determining th…
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Somerset County Man Tells Convenient Store Clerk 'I've Been Shot,' Then Collapses
A Plainfield man walked into a convenience store with a gunshot wound then collapsed on the ground Saturday night, authorities said Monday. The 28-year-old man went into a Route 22 store in Green Brook Township, told the clerk that he had been shot, then collapsed just after 11 p.m., Somerset County Prosecutor Michael H. Robertson said in a joint release. Medical crews treated the man at the scene before taking him to a local trauma center for emergency surgery. He is listed in stable condition, authorities said. It is not clear where the shooting occurred or what the motive was, authoriti…
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: Bodycams Show Moments Before Driver's Fatal Medical Episode Off Rt 80
Body camera footage released Friday shows a diabetic Paterson driver who died following a traffic stop having a medical episode in the back of a State Police cruiser. Troopers handcuffed Sergio Rodriguez, 51, and led him to the marked SUV after finding heroin in his car during a June 27 stop outside their Totowa barracks on Minnisink Road, the footage released by state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal shows. Rodriguez tells the troopers that he’s low on insulin, so one asks him whether they should call EMS. Rodriguez says he doesn’t want his family finding out, but the trooper insists. “…
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DWI Bergen County Woman Faces More Serious Charges In Crash That Killed Hudson County Man
Charges have been upgraded against a Bergen County woman accused of killing a 66-year-old man in a Hudson County crash last year, authorities announced Monday. Denisse Ortega, 35, of New Milford, was initially charged with aggravated manslaughter and death by auto after the fatal crash on Sept. 29, 2019, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. The latter charge has been upgraded to death by auto and DWI while within 1,000 feet of school property, Suarez said. Ortega surrendered to authorities Monday, Suarez added. Ortega was heading north on JFK Boulevard when she failed to obey multi…
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Palisades Park Firefighters Battle Extreme Heat, Terrain To Douse House Blaze
It wasn’t the easiest job: The air was thick, with temperatures still in the high 80s, when a fire broke out in a home on a Palisades Park hill at the top of a private driveway. Borough firefighters lugging hoses and ground ladders doused the Monday night blaze -- saving the house -- with no serious injuries. An air conditioning unit in back of the Chateau Road home ignited, sending flames up the vinyl siding, then into a soffit and roof rafter, shortly before 8 p.m., Fire Chief John Mantone said. Mantone’s firefighters had help at the scene from their colleagues from Ridgefield and Leoni…
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Troubled Man Enters Paterson Police HQ With Shirt On Fire
An emotionally disturbed man walked into Paterson police headquarters with his shirt on fire, responders said. A desk officer at the Frank X. Graves Public Safety complex on Broadway quickly extinguished the fire and summoned EMS following the incident around 1 a.m. Monday, they said. The man’s condition couldn’t immediately be determined. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS
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: Bodycam Footage Shows NJ Transit Officer Reviving Newborn Baby In Train Station
A fast-acting NJ Transit officer revived a lifeless baby born in Newark Penn Station. He rushed her to the hospital in the passenger's seat of a police car Tuesday morning and didn't stop CPR until he got to the hospital, where she began to cry. Every second was captured by body cameras worn by the officers. The officers responded to a report of a medical event in the women's restroom at Newark Penn Station around 10 a.m., to find a mother cradling her newborn baby in her arms, NJ Transit officials said. The baby was grey in color and not breathing. Officer Bryan Richards can be see…
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: Ambulance Collides With SUV In Montclair
An ambulance and SUV collided Monday morning in Montclair, injuring the EMT driving the rig and a patient who was being transported at the time, responders said. The front driver’s side of the Atlantic Mobile Health ambulance took the brunt of the hit and ended up on a lawn at the corner of Grove Street and Bellevue Avenue shortly after 11 a.m. The SUV was totaled, with major damage to the front, as well as the rear passenger side. All airbags in the vehicle deployed. Montclair police and firefighters responded, along with other ambulances. The SUVDAILY VOICE photo CHECK BACK FOR MORE…
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320 EMS Workers Will Lose Their Jobs When Monmouth Ocean Hospital Services Folds
A major Emergency Medical Services company in Wall Township will begin shutting down after 42 years of operation on April 1. The shutdown of Monmouth Ocean Hospital Services Corp. (MONOC) affects 320 employees, according to this W.A.R.N. notice issued by the state Department of Labor. MONOC, a non-profit company and healthcare co-operative, provides ambulance and other services to 13 acute care hospitals in New Jersey. In a Jan. 23 letter to company workers, Jeff Behm, MONOC's president and CEO, said the company was closing due to “a challenging financial environm…
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Heroes
: Heart Attack Victim, 55, Revived By Responders On Tubing Hill At Campgaw
The “magic carpet” lift at Campgaw Mountain in Mahwah was full when a 55-year-old skier from Wayne on a school trip with his wife and children keeled over nearly 100 yards up the tubing hill. Several riders and the lift operator rushed to the heart attack victim's side and began CPR. One of them is a nurse, another an off-duty police officer from Bergen County who was with his son on the trip. “The conveyor belt was a little unsteady,” said the officer. “At first I thought he just fell down. Then I realized it was a lot worse than that. “He wasn’t moving, so things started to pile up on t…
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Update
: Mom, 7-Year-Old Son Dead In Nutley House Fire
A mother and her 7-year-old son died, and a 74-year-old man was injured in a Nutley house fire Saturday, authorities said. Amanda Russo, 29, and her son were pronounced dead at Clara Mass Medical Center following the blaze on the 300 block of Park Avenue, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said. ** UPDATE: More than $4,000 had been raised as of Sunday on a GoFundMe for the victims of Saturday's Nutley house fire ** Joe Caprio of Nutley said he was driving by when he saw flames shooting out of the roof around 12:40 p.m. He called 911, got out of his car and began banging on the doors and…
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