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Litchfield, CT
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Firefighters Slice Open Car To Save Driver As Power Lines Sparked Fire In Litchfield
Firefighters cut a trapped driver free after a violent crash sent a car into a utility pole in Litchfield, forcing authorities to shut down Route 254 at Windsong Drive. The crash scattered live wires across the ground and sparked a small fire. Northfield firefighters reached the scene first, dousing the flames and slicing off the roof in a seven-minute extrication while crews kept clear of downed lines. Command asked Eversource to kill the power, and the utility confirmed the lines were dead before the driver was moved to EMS care. Thomaston Fire helped with cutting and se…
Rye, NY
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2 Stuck Vehicles Saved From Floodwaters In Rye
The drivers of two cars had to be saved from drowning in floodwaters on a Westchester road after their vehicles became stuck. The rescue happened on Sunday afternoon, July 16, when members of the Rye Police Department and the city's fire department were sent to Playland Parkway when two cars became stuck in floodwater, according to Rye Police. The two vehicles became stuck after attempting to drive through the water, causing the cars to be flooded and rendering them inoperable, police said. The incident happened in the midst of a slow-moving storm system that dumped sever…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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3 Feet High And Flooding: Motorist Rescued From Partially Submerged Sedan In Glen Rock (
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A firefighter and two police officers helped a woman out of a sedan that got stuck in floodwaters beneath a Glen Rock train trestle. Firefighter Ryan Jennings and Special Police Officer James Harte were both driving down Maple Avenue when they spotted the vehicle with the driver still in it. The recent torrential downpours flooded the stretch beneath the NJ TRANSIT tracks on Maple Avenue near the borough train station around noontime Tuesday, June 27, leaving the vehicle stranded in three feet of water. Glen Rock Motor Unit Police Officer Adam Pyatak went in, as well, and together the tri…
Lancaster, PA
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Watch Police Rescue Woman Trapped In Car Sinking Into Freezing Pond In Central PA (
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While people were being advised to stay off the roads due to a snowstorm police officers in Lancaster County were jumping to a pond to rescue a woman trapped in a quickly submerging car— and you can watch the entire rescue which was captured on a bodycam. Manheim Township Emergency Services were called to a report of a vehicle that had gone into a pond near the intersection of Oregon Pike and Valleybrook Road on Thursday, Dec. 22 at 8 p.m. Manheim Township Police Officers Kyle Carner and Anthony DiClemente quickly arrived and jumped into the water to rescue the 59-year-old w…
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Dramatic bodycam video shows Ridgefield Park police pulling a trapped Fort Lee driver from his burning sedan. An electrical malfunction ignited the front of 55-year-old Christopher Vagnone’s Honda Accord outside Mavis Discount Tire on Route 46 (Winant Avenue) shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday, Police Chief Joseph Rella said. Unable to open the car doors, Sgt. Nicholas Triano retrieved a Halligan bar and smashed the driver’s side window, the chief said. Officers Anthony D'Elia and Nicholas D'Alto joined him in trying to remove Vagnone through the window, but the intense flames and heat pushed …
North Hunterdon, NJ
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Driver Taken To Trauma Center As Car Plunges Down Embankment Into Hunterdon County Pond:
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A driver was rescued and rushed to a nearby trauma center after a vehicle plunged down a steep embankment and landed in a pond in Hunterdon County, authorities said. The Flemington-Raritan First Aid and Rescue Squad responded to the crash near Route 202 and Colony Road in Raritan Township just after 8:35 p.m. on Wednesday, June 15, the department said. Initial investigation showed that the vehicle was heading northbound on Route 202 when it crossed the grass median north of Voorhees Corner Road, continued north in the southbound lanes, and hit several mailboxes and a fire hydrant, crews sa…
Edison, NJ
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Central Jersey Driver Trapped, Hospitalized After Route 9 Crash
A motorist was hospitalized after a rush-hour crash in Central Jersey, authorities said. The crash occurred shortly before 8 a.m. on Route 9 in Woodbridge Township, initial reports said. The driver was pinned and needed extensive help from firefighters to be freed from the vehicle, according to an unconfirmed report. The unidentified victim was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, reports said. No other details were immediately available. CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES
West Chester, PA
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Longwood Fire Crews Free Stuck Driver From Creek In Chester County
Fire crews rescued a trapped driver from a car wreck in Pocopson Township (Chester County), authorities said. Crews arrived on the scene to find a car that veered off the road into a creek on East Lafayette Drive Thursday evening, according to Longwood Fire Company. Crews were able to safely remove the driver. The driver was turned over to EMS for a medical evaluation. The extent of their injuries was not made clear.
