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These Maps Show Realtime Smoke, Air Quality As Canadian Wildfires Rage These Maps Show Realtime Smoke, Air Quality As Canadian Wildfires Rage
These Maps Show Realtime Smoke, Air Quality As Canadian Wildfires Rage Can't tell if it's smoke or cloudy skies above? The following realtime configurations and air quality maps won't have you guessing anymore. A realtime configuration from Fire Smoke Canada — the Canadian portal for information about wildland fire weather and smoke — shows exactly where each of the more than 150 wildfires are raging and predicts roughly how heavy the smoke will be and where. The New York Times, meanwhile, has a similar smoke forecast map that indicates light, medium, or high levels of smoke from the fires, based on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The rea…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Kalahari Employee's Husband Surrenders In Crash That Killed Her: Police Kalahari Employee's Husband Surrenders In Crash That Killed Her: Police
Kalahari Employee's Husband Surrenders In Crash That Killed Her: Police The husband of a Kalahari Resort employee who was among two killed in a crash last summer has been charged in connection with the incident, authorities in Connecticut announced. Juan Fernandez, 38, of Union City, NJ, surrendered to police on Wednesday, Aug. 17, and was charged with two counts of negligent homicide, among other charges in connection with the crash on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021, in Middlesex County, on Route 15 in Woodbridge. Fernandez was behind the wheel of a Honda Accord that had seven people, including five people in the backseat, when he drove straight into a tree traveling a…

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by Kathy Reakes & Cecilia Levine
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Killer Brutally Beat Inmate For NJ Latin Kings 'Hit Squad': Indictment Killer Brutally Beat Inmate For NJ Latin Kings 'Hit Squad': Indictment
Killer Brutally Beat Inmate For NJ Latin Kings 'Hit Squad': Indictment A convicted killer from West New York sent a fellow inmate to the hospital with a severe head injury as part of a deal with a prison "hit squad" run by a Latin Kings leader, authorities said. Daniel Balbuena, 29, carried out the beating in exchange for an assault on a rival of the Gran Familiar Mexicana gang by hit squad members, an indictment returned by a grand jury in Trenton alleges. Authorities last year charged Frank “Lafay” Blake of Hillside and several other current and former shank-armed inmates with an assault at New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, as well as with plans to carry …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Feds: NJ Man Enticed Minors To Send Him Homemade Porn Pics, Video Feds: NJ Man Enticed Minors To Send Him Homemade Porn Pics, Video
Feds: NJ Man Enticed Minors To Send Him Homemade Porn Pics, Video A Hudson County man was arrested by the FBI after he enticed two underage children to create and send him porn photos and videos of themselves, federal authorities charged. Erick Solis, 25, "used a social media application to engage with two underage victims in sexually explicit conversations," U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said Thursday. He then "instructed both victims to take sexually explicit photographs and videos of themselves and send them to him," Sellinger said. At least one of them complied, the U.S. attorney said. Solis, who's recently lived in Union City and Weehawken, was…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
NJ Woman Who Worked At Kalahari Killed, Six Seriously Injured In CT Crash NJ Woman Who Worked At Kalahari Killed, Six Seriously Injured In CT Crash
NJ Woman Who Worked At Kalahari Killed, Six Seriously Injured In CT Crash A woman was killed and six other people all from New Jersey suffered serious injures in a single-vehicle crash in Connecticut. It happened just before 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 13 in New Haven County. The vehicle involved, a Honda Accord, was traveling northbound on Route 15 near Exit 58 in Woodbridge, when the vehicle veered into the right shoulder when it struck a tree, according to state police. The victim has been identified as a passenger in the Accord, Siryania Albino-De Fernandez, 30, of Union City, New Jersey. Those who knew her said she worked at Kalahari Resorts in Pennsylvania. She w…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Teen Car Burglars Lead NJ Pursuit In Car Stolen Out Of Philly, Police Say Teen Car Burglars Lead NJ Pursuit In Car Stolen Out Of Philly, Police Say
Teen Car Burglars Lead NJ Pursuit In Car Stolen Out Of Philly, Police Say Three teens were in police custody with another suspect at large after going on a car burglary spree then leading a police pursuit across Hudson County in a sedan stolen out of Philadelphia, authorities said. A Secaucus, NJ resident called police to report four individuals burglarized his family's car on Pandolfi Avenue around 3:30 a.m. on Jan. 20, Secaucus Police Chief Dennis Miller said. The four suspects fled in a black Toyota Corolla, later found to be stolen out of Philadelphia on Jan. 13, Miller said. A responding police officer saw the stolen vehicle leaving near Centre Avenue, then…

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by Cecilia Levine