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UPDATE: No Hydrants Hampers Fight Against Upper Saddle River Mansion Fire At Rockland Border UPDATE: No Hydrants Hampers Fight Against Upper Saddle River Mansion Fire At Rockland Border
Update: No Hydrants Hampers Fight Against Upper Saddle River Mansion Fire At Rockland Border Nearly three dozen mutual aid companies and well over 100 firefighters helped counter a lack of area hydrants as a fast-moving blaze consumed an Upper Saddle River mansion at the Rockland County border over the weekend. No one was injured in the multi-alarm Hillside Avenue blaze, which broke out in the $2.7 million home in the north end of town shortly after 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, and instantly became fully involved, fire officials said. Authorities were investigating the cause. The Upper Saddle River mansion on Hillside Avenue was destroyed.UPPER SADDLE RIVER FIRE DEPT Firefighter…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN: 75% Of Blaze Contained, Operations Again Paused Overnight FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN: 75% Of Blaze Contained, Operations Again Paused Overnight
Fire ON THE Mountain: 75% Of Blaze Contained, Operations Again Paused Overnight UPDATE: Crews got 75% of a Ramapo Mountains wildfire doused before breaking again until morning. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service initially estimated that the wildfire covered 50 acres. They revised that figure to 40 acres late Thursday afternoon, April 21. It took several hours to contain roughly half the blaze after it broke out around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in Mahwah off Bear Swamp Road in the Ramapo Valley County Reservation, north of Camp Glen Gray, and quickly spread. Another quarter was knocked down on Thursday as crews built and reinforced containment lines. No injuries were repor…

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Firefighters Extricate Driver With Severe Head Injury In Crash Off Route 208 Firefighters Extricate Driver With Severe Head Injury In Crash Off Route 208
Firefighters Extricate Driver With Severe Head Injury In Crash Off Route 208 A driver suffered traumatic head injuries and had to be extricated by Franklin Lakes firefighters after she ran a stop sign and her car was hit by a truck, authorities said. The 27-year-old Paterson driver had exited northbound Route 208 to Summit Avenue shortly before 7:30 a.m., Police Sgt. Denny G. Knubel said. She made a left onto Summit without stopping and her Nissan Sentra was struck by a Freightliner driven by a 66-year-old borough man, Knubel said. The Sentra then hit a BMW 530 driven by a 48-year-old Riverdale man who was headed north on Summit, he said. The truck and Sentra "wen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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FOUND! Missing Franklin Lakes Boy, 10, Returns Safe, Sound FOUND! Missing Franklin Lakes Boy, 10, Returns Safe, Sound
Found! Missing Franklin Lakes Boy, 10, Returns Safe, Sound The search for a missing 10-year-old Franklin Lakes boy ended early Wednesday evening when he returned home after several hours, police said, adding that the youngster was OK. As a precaution, an EMS unit was responding to the home. "At 2:59 p.m. today, a Pulis Avenue resident reported that [the] 10-year-old child had left the home and was missing," police Capt. John Bakelaar said. "He was last seen running into a wooded area bordering the residence. "At approximately 6:20 p.m., the child returned home." A State Police chopper was in the air and searchers fanned out late Wednesday after…

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by Jerry DeMarco