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Distraught Woman Jumps 50 Feet From Ho-Ho-Kus Bridge Distraught Woman Jumps 50 Feet From Ho-Ho-Kus Bridge
Distraught Woman Jumps 50 Feet From Ho-Ho-Kus Bridge A suicidal woman was hospitalized after jumping from a bridge early Tuesday night in Ho-Ho-Kus. Passerby Jack Sedlak said he spoke with the 54-year-old Ridgewood woman and directed rescuers to her after she plunged 50 or so feet from the Warren Avenue bridge over the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook just off Brookside Avenue shortly before 6 p.m. They needed a Stokes basket to hoist the victim up the embankment to a waiting ambulance before she was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with lower extremity injuries. Boyd A. Loving took the photo and contributed to this article.  ****** …

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by Jerry DeMarco