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Police & Fire
Fire Ravages Englewood Home
Flames blew through the roof of an Englewood home ravaged by a ferocious fire. The blaze apparently ignited on the second floor of the 2½-story, $1 million wood-frame home on Walton Street just off Jones Road shortly after 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 13. It was well-involved when firefighters arrived, requiring a defensive operation. A huge column of smoke could be seen from nearby Route 4. No injuries were reported. Firefighters faced water pressure issues as they continued to battle the blaze at noontime. Mutual aid at the scene and in coverage included firefighters from Bergenfield, Bo…
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Mini School Bus Broadsided In Ridgewood (
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No children were aboard a mini school bus that was broadsided by a sedan in Ridgewood early Friday. Three adults on the bus declined medical attention following the T-bone crash at the intersection of Kenilworth and Laurel roads shortly before 8:30 a.m. Feb. 16. The impact sent the minibus crashing partly through a fence and wrapped the driver's side STOP sign around a tree. Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE The impact sent the Paterson-based We Care School Trans minibus crashing partly through a fence and wrapped the driver's side STOP sign around a tree. The Honda Accord driver chec…
Police & Fire
Update
: Tractor-Trailer Tips Over Median, Dumps Trash Across Treacherous Stretch Of Route 17
A tractor-trailer hauling garbage tipped over a median on Route 17 Friday morning at what police and commuters say has become an all-too-frequent site for such crashes near the New York State border. The driver was initially entrapped but climbed out on his own after his northbound rig went over the divider near the Route 202 exit at Mountainside Avenue at 8:43 a.m. Sept. 8, Mahwah Police Chief Timothy O'Hara said. He had minor injuries and refused medical attention, the chief said. Traffic quickly thickened on both sides of Route 17. All lanes were very briefly closed while the first r…
Police & Fire
'Forgotten Baby' Prank: Police Called To Paramus Malls Aren't Laughing
Shades of "Raising Arizona." As pranks go, the forgotten baby on the car roof is particularly cruel because of the scare it gives people. That's why police weren't laughing when someone drove a Tesla with New York plates through the parking lots of all three major malls in Paramus on Monday with looked like a genuine baby in a car seat on the roof. Not only is the stunt callous, they said. Depending on who the punk'd bystanders are, the gagman could end up getting thrown a beatin'. "Although incidents of baby car seats left in parking lots and on vehicles has occurred in our shopping ma…
Police & Fire
Roof Collapses In Clifton House Fire
UPDATE: The roof of a Clifton home collapsed during a fire on Saturday that brought arson investigators. The two-alarm blaze -- three bells for coverage -- ignited shortly before noon May 27 and quickly spread through the home on dead-ended Lynn Drive. Firefighters went defensive once the roof began collapsing, then returned to an offensive attack soon after. No injuries were reported. The two-alarm blaze -- three bells for coverage -- ignited shortly before noon May 27 and quickly spread through the Lynn Drive home.Victor Scrivens for DAILY VOICE A preliminary cause wasn't given. A …
Police & Fire
Firefighters Douse Rutherford Basement Blaze
Firefighters doused a smoky house blaze that began in the basement of a Rutherford home. No one was injured in the fire, which broke out in the two-story, two-family house on Springfield Avenue shortly before 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 9. It was knocked down and brought under control within an hour, responders at the scene said. Mutual aid was provided by firefighters from East Rutherford and Wallington. A borough building official and a PSE&G crew were summoned. ****** DID WE MISS ANY? Please text Jerry DeMarco at (201) 943-2794 / or email: gerardjdemarco@gmail.com or direct message fa…
Police & Fire
Tractor-Trailer Fire Closes Northbound Route 17 Near State Line
A tractor-trailer fire temporarily closed northbound Route 17 in Mahwah near the New York State border early Wednesday afternoon. The driver got the TruBlu Logistics rig to the shoulder and hopped out before flames began consuming the tractor just south of the Route 287 merge shortly before 2 p.m. May 10. Police detoured traffic onto southbound Route 287. Firefighters made quick work of the blaze that engulfed the tractor of a rig headed north on Route 17 near the New York State border on Wednesday, May 10.Jerry DeMarco Mutual aid responders so far reported to Daily Voice, either at th…
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Young Girl Plunges From Fairview Apartment Building Roof
UPDATE (2/21/2023): A 13-year-old girl who jumped from the roof of a five-story apartment building in Fairview last week has emerged from a medically-induced coma, multiple sources confirmed on Tuesday. “She’s alert, breathing on her own and aware of her surroundings -- getting better and better each day,” a law enforcement veteran told Daily Voice shortly after noon on Feb. 21. “It really is a miracle,” he said. “There’s no other way to put it.” Just six days earlier, the distressed youngster went to the roof of the brick building on Day Avenue as classmates headed home from Lincoln Scho…
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'Was That An Earthquake?' North Jersey Asks
"What was that?" was the question that rumbled through a large swath of North Jersey and into New York State early Wednesday afternoon. Mine blasting? A sonic boom? Seneca guns? Unconfirmed reports of an earthquake or "seismic-like event" stretched from Newton and Sparta in Sussex County to as far east as the Palisades in Alpine beginning at 12:52 p.m. Jan. 11. There were similar calls in several southern New York State counties, as well as in the Poconos in Pennsylvania. All are basically in the area of the Ramapo Fault Line. The longest and oldest in the Northeast -- at 185 m…
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There's A Car In There Just Off Route 208 (
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Firefighters doused a fully involved car blaze off Route 208 late Tuesday afternoon. No injuries were reported in the impromptu Jan. 3 bonfire at the Harristown Road exit around 4 p.m. The spectacle thickened the northbound highway with rubberneckers. Motorists on the southbound side slowed, as well. Firefighters doused a fully involved car blaze off Route 208 late Tuesday afternoon.Boyd A. Loving Firefighters then cut their way into the KIA Rio to kill the battery. Harristown Road off northbound Route 208 in Fair Lawn.Boyd A. Loving Fair Lawn firefighters were joined by borough p…
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SUV Rolls Into Woodcliff Lake Home
No one was injured when a runaway SUV smacked into a Woodcliff Lake home on Wednesday. A building inspector was summoned, however, to inspect the damage to the garage of the home struck at the end of a cul-de-sac on Mullholland Drive around 9:30 a.m. Dec. 21. Rich's Towing removed the Lexus NX300, which responders said had come from across the street. "A neighbor left the car in drive and it rolled," Police Lt. Chad Malloy said. The SUV sustained relatively little damage. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this account. The Lexus NX300 sustained relatively little dama…
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: Driver, 22, Escapes Burning Jeep In Old Tappan Moments Before It Bursts Into Flames
WATCH: A 22-year-old driver avoided a frightful fate after a crash in Old Tappan ignited a ferocious fire that quickly engulfed her Jeep. The Rockland County motorist didn't have much time after her Patriot slammed into a utility pole on Westwood Avenue between Stone Point Park and Washington Avenue South. "Wires fell to the ground, igniting a leaf pile," Police Chief Joseph J. Tracy said. "The fire worked its way to leaves underneath the vehicle -- which ignited the vehicle itself." Christian Michael provided the videos and photo for this story: Jerry DeMarco Old Tappan firefighters …
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? Another Tractor-Trailer Crashes On Treacherous Stretch Of Route 287
A tractor-trailer driver escaped serious injury when his rig flipped over a guardrail on a notorious stretch of Route 287 on a rainy night. The northbound highway was temporarily closed after the crash at mile marker 64.2 in Mahwah shortly before 9 p.m. Firefighters freed the driver, who was hospitalized with injuries that responders said weren't considered serious. Heavy-duty wreckers were needed to remove the rig. Firefighters freed the driver, who was hospitalized with injuries that responders said weren't considered serious following the crash on northbound Route 287 in Mahwah.Mah…
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Fire Ravages Mahwah Home
A raging fire ravaged a Mahwah home. The fire ignited in the attached three-car garage and raced through the nearly $1.5 million home set back off a long driveway near Young World Day School on Wyckoff Avenue shortly before 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1. The owner quickly got out and watched in anguish as firefighters battled the three-alarm blaze. They went to an exterior operation, heavily dousing the flames with a trio of aerials in front and back before moving inside of the 4,200-square-foot home after the second-floor ceiling collapsed. The fire was declared under control shortly aft…
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Two Hospitalized After Rear-Ending Tractor-Trailer On Route 17
Two occupants were hospitalized with minor injuries after their vehicle rear-ended a tractor-trailer on Route 17, authorities said. The first victim was out of the car and the second was extricated by firefighters following the crash on the northbound highway near Mountainside Avenue in Mahwah around 2:30 p.m. Monday, April 11, Mayor Jim Wysocki said. The driver of the rig kept going, apparently unaware that it had been hit, the mayor said. Both victims were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, responders said. No other information was immediately available. ANYONE with additio…
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Human Corpse Ejected From Transport Van, Horse In Trailer OK In Multi-Vehicle Crash On Route 17
You had to see it to believe it, witnesses said: A corpse being taken from a hospital to a funeral home fell out the back of a transport vehicle in a multi-vehicle crash involving a horse trailer on Route 17 in Paramus. Three people were hospitalized, none with serious injuries, in the five-vehicle pileup on the highway's southbound side near the exit for Route 4 around 3:45 p.m. Friday, March 25, Paramus Police Kenneth Ehrenberg said from the scene. The body was on a stretcher wrapped in a sheet when it popped out of a Honda Odyssey, the chief said. The corpse wasn't damaged, he said. Th…
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Fire Damages Saddle Brook Home
A fire called in by a dogwalker damaged a vacant home being renovated in Saddle Brook. Firefighters quickly knocked down the Hayes Drive blaze, which apparently broke out in the basement around 10:30 p.m. Saturday. They had it doused within 20 minutes. Firefighters had the blaze on Hayes Drive doused within 20 minutes.Tony Greco for DAILY VOICE No injuries were reported. Mutual aid responders either at the scene or in coverage included firefighters from Elmwood Park, Fair Lawn, Garfield and Rochelle Park. No injuries were reported.Jerry DeMarco
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Cats Rescued In Mahwah House Fire
Two cats were rescued in a damaging house blaze early Thursday afternoon in Mahwah. Police got there seconds after the noontime blaze broke out and ushered two residents out of the 2½-story home on Winding Trail in the township's Fardale section, neighbors said. Flames apparently ignited by a timer for the front door light went up the front wall and into the soffits and the house. "It was going pretty good," but members of nearby Mahwah Fire Company 4 quickly knocked down the blaze, witnesses said. The smoke eaters also safely got out two family cats, they said. No injuries were reporte…
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Fowl Smell: Truck Spills Decomposed Chicken Carcasses Along Route 17
Witnesses said you couldn't imagine the stink when a tractor-trailer carrying chicken carcasses lost part of its load as rush-hour temperatures on Route 17 neared 90 degrees on Monday. Hay and chicken parts "flew all over the highway" after a strap on a tarp came loose from the trailer as it headed down the hill on the southbound highway in Ramsey shortly before 6 p.m., one witness said. The driver "braked to stop near the iHop and it all spilled over the top onto the trailer connections," he added. "It's the worst smell you ever smelled in your life," another witness said. "I was gaggin…
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Update
: Wires Downed In Crash That Split Pole Closes Route 9W Nearly All Day
UPDATE: Route 9W remained closed in Englewood Cliffs for nearly 14 hours Sunday after a vehicle slammed into and split a utility pole. Wires were strung across Sylvan Avenue north of Charlotte Place after the pole topped onto the road in the mid-morning crash on the road's southbound side. The driver, a 20-year old Cliffside Park man, complained of pain, but he and his apparently uninjured 19-year-old male passenger from Cresskill both declined medical attention at the scene, borough police Detective Lt. Ronald Waldt said. Route 9W (Sylvan Avenue) was closed between Charlotte Place and…
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Trash-Toting Tractor-Trailer Tips On Route 46 Ramp
A trash-hauling tractor-trailer tipped Friday on the Route 46 ramp to the New Jersey Turnpike and Route 80 in Ridgefield Park. The driver escaped serious injury, responders said. Heavy wreckers were needed to right the rig, which dumped its load on the side of the roadway. LandfillJerry DeMarco The westbound ramp from Route 46 was closed while workers offloaded the trash into a roll-off dumpster and heavy-duty wreckers righted and removed the rig. Westbound traffic was backed up for miles. Westbound Route 46 traffic stretched for miles as heavy-duty wreckers righted the rig on the…
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40 Years After Coming To Town, Wyckoff McDonald's Closes
Not everyone welcomed McDonald’s when it sought a Wyckoff address 40 years ago. Bringing the hamburger chain to their affluent Bergen County suburb would create a domino effect that would “cheapen” its character, some contended. Look no further than some foreign cities, said one resident, pointing to golden arches and trash along the Champs de Elysees. More fast-food joints wouldn't be far behind, he said. The opposition was strong, but it was nowhere near as intense as when Dairy Queen rolled up five years earlier. Township planners eventually OK’d the new burger joint in the Boulder R…
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? Fairview Pizzeria Owner Tries To Identify Family In Portrait Found In Basement
A portrait of an unknown family that turned up in the basement of a Fairview pizzeria has the owner’s wife trying to find out who they are so she can return it. Abir Abuali had no luck with the previous owners of the Anderson Avenue building where her husband operates Margherita Pizza Cucina. She even tried the Bergen County Board of Taxation, which helped her find the owners before them. "It wasn’t theirs, either,” Abuali said. There's no telling exactly how old the framed portrait is. Abuali isn't stopping, though. “I’m going to get the names of the first owners of the building,” sh…
Police & Fire
Truck Crashes Across Median At Rockland/Jersey Border, Jams Thruway, Route 17
A large rental truck crashed on the northbound New York State Thruway in Suffern near the New Jersey exit for southbound Route 17 Friday afternoon, jamming traffic in both directions. A heavy-duty wrecker was needed to right the truck, which fell across the divider with its rear wheels facing north and cab facing south a quarter-mile from the Route 17 flyover just before 2 p.m. All lanes eventually were reopened. Traffic in New Jersey had backed up to Route 202. The crash was barely a quarter-mile from the New Jersey exit for Route 17 (in distance).Jerry DeMarco PHOTOS BELOW: Courtesy…
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