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Brentwood, NY
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Long Island Worker Rescued After Falling Through Roof
A worker at a busy Long Island building had to be rescued after falling through a hatch on the roof, police said. First responders were dispatched to Covanta on Merchants Concourse in East Garden City at approximately 10:45 a.m. on Tuesday, June 23, where there was a report of a man that fell nearly two dozen feet through a roof. Upon arrival, it was determined that a worker fell through a hatch on the roof, dropping approximately 20 feet onto another tier of roofing prior to his rescue. Emergency Services Unit officers from the Nassau County Police Department responded to the scene, and …
Newark, NJ
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Strange Pink Smoke Seen Wafting From Stack In Newark
Residents of Newark's Ironbound or motorists who regularly travel on the New Jersey Turnpike nearby are used to the forest of fuming smokestacks in the region. Normally the clouds billowing from the stacks are a light to dark gray. On Wednesday, however, things were a little different. A cloud of bright pink smoke was released from the Covanta facility, a combination trash incinerator and energy generation plant located in the heavily industrialized easternmost section of Newark near the Hudson County border. The sight of the bright pink smoke was perplexing to almost all, concerning …
