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Victim Rescued From Crumpled Car, Taken To Trauma Center After Route 78 Crash (
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One person had to be extricated from a crumpled car and taken to a nearby trauma center following a crash on Route 78 in Hunterdon County, authorities said. The crash occurred near the intersection of Route 78 and Route 523 in Tewksbury on the morning of Tuesday, April 12, according to the Whitehouse Rescue Squad. Photos show the nearly unrecognizable vehicle after it had struck a telephone pole near an underpass. The victim was safely removed from the car and taken to the local trauma center for treatment, the rescue squad said. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear. Assisti…
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74-Year-Old Man Hospitalized With Head Injury After Fall In Morris County
UPDATE: The medical helicopter was canceled and the patient was taken by ground to a nearby hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, police Capt. Robert Bush told DailyVoice.com. -------------------------------------- A 74-year-old man was taken to a nearby hospital after falling and suffering a head injury in Morris County Friday afternoon, developing reports say. The man fell near a building on Shore Road in Jefferson shortly before 3:50 p.m., according to initial and unconfirmed reports. A medical helicopter was requested to land in an open field nearby to take the man …
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19-Year-Old NJ Wawa Worker Saves Customer's Life
A 19-year-old South Jersey Wawa employee is credited with saving the life of a customer having a medical episode. A routine day of making sandwiches on a 16-hour shift turned into a very memorable one for John Wallop. On Dec. 17, the high school senior was making sandwiches when he was flagged down by two strangers saying a woman was having a seizure in the bathroom at the Millville Wawa, 6abc reports. Wallop ran into the bathroom. "She, you know, passed away on me for a second," he said, according to 6ABC News. "You know, she died on me for a second." Wallop performed CPR until the …
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Seton Hall Student Dies In Dorm, University Says
A Seton Hall University student died after suffering a medical emergency in a dorm room Monday, school officials said. The unidentified student was in Neumann Hall at the time of the incident, according to SHU President Joseph E. Nyre. The cause of death was not released, pending a medical examiner's report. The residence hall where the incident occurred was being used as quarantine housing for out-of-state students in the Spring 2021 semester. “We are anguished at the loss of any member of our university family, but especially at the death of a student,” Nyre said. “We ache w…
Police & Fire
Off-Duty Police Officer, Father Of 3 Killed In Central Jersey Crash
UPDATED: Authorities have released the name of the off-duty police officer killed in a crash in Perth Amboy on Wednesday night. Senior Police Officer Arcadio Rivera Jr., 54, was operating his personal vehicle off-duty and apparently had a medical emergency that caused him to crash into parked vehicles, according to initial reports. The scene of a fatal crash involving an off-duty Perth Amboy police officer. (Courtesy news12)news12 (screengrab) He was a former U.S. Marine and 26-year veteran of the police force. Rivera is survived by three children, Arcadio III, Luis Armando and Angel…
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Heroes
: Off-Duty EMTs, Officer Coincidentally Dining At Same Rahway Restaurant Save Choking Man
A group of off-duty EMTs and an off-duty police officer who all happened to be eating at the same Rahway restaurant sprung into action to save a man choking on his food Monday night. The six medics and the officer were dining at The Waiting Room in Rahway, when the man began choking on a piece of steak around 9:30 p.m. Elizabeth EMT Amber Henderson, 27, was the first to notice. "I happened to look over and saw a woman standing up and hitting a man on the back," she told Daily Voice. Henderson stood up slowly to see if the man was able to get the food out, but noticed very quickly that wa…
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Heroes
: Firefighters Revive Baby Brought To Station In Woman's Arms
Firefighters jumped into action to save a baby that had stopped breathing Wednesday morning. A frantic woman desperate for help showed up to the fire station at 87 Elm Road (Engine 27, Ladder 4) around 11:10 a.m., holding the baby who had turned purple, a city spokesperson said. woman who showed up to a Newark fire station with an infant who had stopped breathing Firefighters immediately administered oxygen, and the child began to breathe again. The baby was taken in an ambulance to a local hospital for further treatment. It was not clear why the child stopped breathing.
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North Bergen Mom In Coma More Than Month After Emergency C-Section, Heart Attack
A North Bergen baby has yet to meet her mom, who remains in a coma more than a month after an emergency C-section and heart attack that left her in a coma. More than $53,900 had been raised on a GoFundMe as of Wednesday morning for Estefania Mesa and her partner Eduardo Argueta, who welcomed baby Emma into the world July 20. Mesa went in for an emergency C-section after feeling contractions, and soon after went into cardiac arrest, according to the GoFundMe, launched by Jennifer Romero. "The lack of oxygen to her brain has now placed her in a coma," Romero wrote. "The doctors believe …
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Hallucinating Passenger Leads To Bomb Scare On Newark Bound Flight, Pilot Says
A passenger having a medical emergency on a Newark Liberty Airport-bound flight claimed there was a bomb on board, bringing emergency vehicles to the tarmac after the plane landed, reports say. The passenger was on flight 2304 from Los Angeles, which landed safely just after 4:30 p.m. Sunday, ABC7 reports. The pilot in an announcement to passengers said the person was hallucinating when the remark was made. The passenger was taken to a local hospital and all bags were removed from the plane and inspected on the tarmac.
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: Port Authority Responders Make Second Save Of Month At Lincoln Tunnel
A team of Port Authority police officers and Tunnel and Bridge agents saved the life of a 52-year-old driver who had a medical episode near the Lincoln Tunnel – the second rescue of the month for three of the responders. PAPD Officer Police Officer Krystal Armenti responded to a report of a disabled vehicle at the end of the Kennedy Boulevard on-ramp shortly before 11 a.m. Sunday and found the driver unresponsive, Port Authority spokeswoman Lenis Rodrigues said. Armenti broke the window and pulled the driver from the vehicle and began compressions as fellow Officer Dana Fuller and TBAs Keit…
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Closter Bicyclist, 63, Seriously Injured, Police Say
A 63-year-old bicyclist was flown to a local hospital by a medical chopper after he was struck Sunday afternoon in Closter, authorities said. The victim was found lying face down, bleeding and unconscious – but breathing – after he was struck by a Toyota Camry shortly after 1:30 p.m. at the corner of Knickerbocker Road and Harington Avenue, Sgt. Daniel Hargrave said. The bicyclist was traveling northbound on Knickerbocker Road when the southbound vehicle hit him while making left onto Harrington Avenue, police said.A medical chopper landed at Tenakill Field and took the victim to Hackensack…
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: Medical Episode Causes Five-Vehicle Fair Lawn Chain-Reaction Crash, Two Hospitalized
Two people were hospitalized in a chain-reaction Fair Lawn crash involving five vehicles, police said. It began when a 66-year-old Fair Lawn driver suffered a medical episode on Fair Lawn Avenue near Abbott Road shortly before 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. First, his 2019 Audi hit a traffic safety bollard and pedestrian crossing sign, Metzler said. Then the Audi rammed into a 2007 Saturn and two parked vehicles -- a 2017 Nissan and a 2019 Toyota, he said. The impact pushed the second vehicle into another Toyota, sending that car into a parking lot, the sergeant said. The …
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