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Wednesday, sep 18
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Update
: Rescued Bergen Driver Loses Leg, Survives Fiery Crash On Palisades Interstate Parkway
A 52-year-old Bergen County driver lost a leg but survived a fiery crash Sunday night thanks to two good Samaritans and the Palisades Interstate Parkway police. A passing NYPD captain and a security guard got the Demarest driver and her 29-year-old passenger, also of Demarest, out of the vehicle after it rolled on the northbound parkway between Exits 1 and 2 shortly before 11:30 p.m., Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Sgt. First Class Raymond Walter said. The responding PIP police officers, Sgt. Martin Clancy and Officer Elizabeth Santos, applied a tourniquet to the driver, saving her lif…
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Video Shows Good Samaritans Pulling NJ Driver From Car Moments Before It Bursts Into Flames
A video posted by the Burlington Township Police Department shows a pair of good Samaritans pulling an unconscious driver from a car after a crash -- seconds before it goes up in flames. The dash-cam footage from a BTPD car shows Larry Scott and Domenique Golden helping the driver of a smoking SUV at the Shell Station near Sunset and Salem roads Sunday morning. An officer walks over to the vehicle to help as a cloud of smoke forms around the SUV. Moments later, all three emerge carrying the driver. They lay him on a grassy area next to an American flag away from traffic -- the smoking…
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Fisherman Finds Body At Inlet Where Swimmer Went Missing 6 Days Earlier
A fisherman found a body floating in the same Cape May County inlet where a 24-year-old swimmer went missing six days earlier. Relatives of Jabed Ikbal, 24, of Clementon were notified after the fisherman found the body of a young man at the inlet south of the Ocean City-Longport Bridge, around 6 a.m. Saturday, an Ocean City Police Department spokesman said. Ikbal had dove into the inlet last weekend on Great Egg Harbor to save two family members struggling in the rough tides. While the pair made it back to shore, Ikbal did not. The U.S. Coast Guard, police, firefighters and EMS crews…
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Hero
: Philadelphia Mechanic Rescues Woman, 20, From Drowning At Jersey Shore
An auto mechanic visiting Wildwood with his family helped save a woman who was drowning, authorities said. Tyree Ward of Philadelphia was hailed as a hero by first responders who later interviewed Ward about his rescue here on Vimeo. Ward was at the beach with his family when a woman frantically asked him to save her friend, who was struggling to swim in the ocean, fire officials said. "Mr. Ward did not hesitate to enter the water. . . and rescue the woman prior to the arrival of first responders," Wildwood Fire Department wrote in a Facebook post. "Mr. Ward’s selfless actions most c…
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Warren County Authorities Seek Owner Of Dog Rescued By Hero Officer In Kayak (
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Every dog has its day -- just ask Akela. The gray boxer/mastiff mix who narrowly escaped being hit by a car then ran to a nearby pound had to be rescued by police in Washington Township Wednesday (scroll down for videos). Akela was in mucky waters and tangled in weeds -- her owner nowhere to be found -- when Police Chief Thomas Cicerelle along with Officers Dallas Overko and John Kuligowski arrived. A neighbor who lived near the pond at Brass Castle Road and Jonestown Road had called police. Cicerelle and Overko borrowed a kayak from a nearby neighbor and worked together to tie a K9 trai…
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Heroes
: Firefighters From Rockland Rescue Palisades Hiker Above NJ Marina
Responders from Piermont rescued a stranded Fourth of July hiker from the Palisades above the Hudson River, authorities said. The 32-year-old Manhattan hiker was with a group who called Palisades Interstate Parkway police from the Giant Stairs in Alpine when he became lightheaded and had difficulty breathing shortly before noon Saturday, PIP Police Sgt. First Class Raymond Walter said. Piermont EMS members stabilized the man while members of the Marine Unit firefighters ran a line that they used to lower him to the Alpine Marina, with help from their colleagues from Nyack, Walter said. Pal…
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Heroes
Again
: 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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Photos
: Firefighters Rescue Teen Stuck In Tree Hanging Over Hunterdon County Waterfall
Firefighters rescued a teenage boy stuck in a tree hanging over a waterfall in Hunterdon County Friday. High Bridge police responded to a wooded area near the Lake Solitude waterfall off the Columbia Trail behind houses on Mountain Avenue just after 12:30 p.m., authorities said. The teen -- who was not injured but couldn't move -- was on a branch of a tree sticking out of the side of a cliff approximately 50 or 60 feet above the water at the base of the dam, Hunterdon County Technical Rescue Task Force said in a Facebook post. Firefighter and EMT James Regan rappelled off the cliff in ful…
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Hero
: Jogging Off-Duty Port Authority Officer Rescues Suicidal River Jumper
An off-duty Port Authority police officer out for a run rescued a suicidal woman who’d jumped into the East River Tuesday afternoon. PAPD Officer Eileen Fitzgerald was running along a path in Astoria Park in Queens when she saw a crowd gathered along the shore near the intersection of 20th Avenue and Shore Boulevard around 1:30 p.m., authority spokeswoman Lenis Rodrigues said. Fitzgerald dashed over, told a civilian to dial 911, then climbed down the rocks to the river, speaking to the woman the entire time, Rodrigues said. The woman said “she no longer wanted to live and to let her go,” R…
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Video
: State Police Pull Man From Blazing Truck Seconds Before Explosion In Somerset County
The moment a New Jersey State trooper and lieutenant rescued a man from a burning truck on Route 287 in Bridgewater Township was captured in an action-packed video (scroll to watch). State Trooper Robert Tarleton had been involved with a driver in a traffic stop on Route 287 northbound near milepost 20 shortly after 3:30 p.m. Monday when a nearby tractor-trailer ran off the right side of the road in the express lanes, NJSP said in a news release. The trailer burst into flames after striking the guardrail and bridge abutments, authorities said. After witnessing the crash, Tarleton immediat…
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Hero
: Police Officer Rescues Mother, Children In Ridgefield House Fire
A Ridgefield police officer kicked in a door and rescued a mother and her two young children from a raging house fire Saturday morning. Sgt. Edward Schaefer was walking out of the headquarters when he saw smoke coming from a block away. Schaefer, a 20-year veteran and firefighter, ran to the Hillside Street home. Smoke poured from the house as he got the mother and kids out. Flames were consuming the second floor and attic when Schaefer then turned and -- without protective gear -- went back inside to make sure there wasn’t anyone left. Schaefer, who was assisted by Officers Hagop Cigerc…
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Firefighters Battle Furious Clifton Blaze
UPDATE: Firefighters rescued a woman while others fled from danger during an intense blaze that consumed a large Clifton multi-family building, killing a dog and a cat and driving 21 people from their homes. The six-alarm blaze broke out on the upper floor of a three-apartment Lexington Avenue home next to a Clifton Avenue gas station around 2:30 p.m. It quickly went to two alarms as firefighters who arrived within moments climbed portable ladders looking for occupants and thick black smoke poured into the sky. They rescued one woman who apparently was preparing to jump from a second floo…
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