Bronx car wreck leaves 1 dead, another injured
Diana Rocco reporting live (David Sarmiento )
Eyewitness News
Updated 1 hr 12 mins ago
PELHAM BAY, Bronx (WABC) -- A woman was killed and another critically injured in the Bronx after a car flipped off a traffic circle on City Island Wednesday.
The driver of a red Dodge Durango lost control of the car, which then ran off the roadway at City Island Road and Park Drive, known as the City Island Circle around 11:45 p.m.
The vehicle then caught fire.
A woman was pronounced dead at the scene. She was badly burned and has not been identified.
A man in the car, a 32-year-old off-duty police officer, was rushed to Jacobi Hospital in serious but stable condition.
He was pulled from the vehicle by two off-duty police officers who were driving home from the Rodman's Neck shooting range in the Bronx. They spotted the crash and rushed to help.
The man sustained leg trauma and burns.
The Good Samaritans sustained smoke inhalation and other injuries, but should recover. They are also at Jacobi Medical Center.
See video from NewsCopter 7 showing a bus crash on the Garden State Parkway in Woodbridge, New Jersey.
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Updated 1 hr 23 mins ago
WOODBRIDGE, New Jersey (WABC) -- A commuter-type van flipped onto its side in New Jersey Thursday morning.
Around 8:30 a.m., the van was in the left lane of the northbound Garden State Parkway in Woodbridge, closing two northbound lanes. It was removed about an hour later.
At least seven people were taken to area hospitals. None of the injuries was serious.
The van veered into the grass area and overturned in the left lane. It is the kind of van bus used for transporting groups of people.
Here's a wider look at where the crash happened:
According to the New Jersey Department of Transportation, the vehicle is north of Colonia Service Area in Woodbridge Township.
There were emergency vehicles and ambulances at the scene.
The New Jersey State Police was urging drivers to expect delays.
PCBs and Lead to be removed from Eighteen Mile Creek Superfund Site in Lockport, N.Y.
01/31/2017
Contact Information:
Michael Basile (basile.michael@epa.gov)
(716) 551-4410
(New York, N.Y. – Jan. 31, 2017) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a plan to remove contamination in the creek corridor section of the Eighteen Mile Creek Superfund Site, in Lockport, N.Y. The creek corridor is approximately one mile in length and extends from the Erie Canal to Harwood Street in Lockport. The Creek and several adjacent properties are contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), lead and other contaminants. PCBs can damage the immune, reproductive, nervous and endocrine systems and are potentially cancer-causing. Lead can damage the nervous system. This portion of the site cleanup will cost an estimated $23 million.
This cleanup plan, which is the second phase of cleanup at this site, will require the complete removal of contaminated sediment in the creek corridor. The EPA requires a combination of excavation and off of the site disposal, capping, and institutional controls to address contaminated soil at Upson Park, the former Flintkote Plant, White Transportation, and former United Paperboard Company properties. During the removal of contaminated sediment, the dilapidated Clinton and William Street dams will be removed.
EPA will be conducting work at:
- The former United Paperboard Company property located at 62 and 70 Mill Street, where a lumber company and paper company operated from the 1890s to 1948;
- The White Transportation property located at 30 through 40 Mill Street;
- Upson Park, a 5.9 acre property that was used by a canal building company and then a paper pulp mill. It is now a public park along the Erie Canal with recreational uses; and
- The former Flintkote Plant property located at 198 and 300 Mill Street, where Flintkote operated between 1928 and 1971 and manufactured felt products.
The EPA completed the initial phase of cleanup in May of 2016, which included the demolition of the former Flintkote building and the buyout and relocation of five families from their Water Street residences in Lockport, N.Y. Those homes and the former industrial building were demolished, and all demolition debris was removed from the properties. The excavation of contaminated soil at the residential properties will be performed during cleanup of sediment in the creek corridor to prevent recontamination of the Creek and the properties.
Eighteen Mile Creek has a long history of industrial use dating back to the 1800s. The headwaters of the Creek consist of an east and west branch beginning immediately north of the New York State Barge Canal in Lockport. Eighteen Mile Creek flows north approximately 15 miles and discharges into Lake Ontario in Olcott, N.Y. The site was placed on the Superfund National Priorities List in March 2012. Investigations at the site show that sediment and soil in and around Eighteen Mile Creek and nearby properties are contaminated with variety of pollutants, including PCBs and lead.
The EPA has taken a multi-phased approach to cleaning up the 18 Mile Creek site. In the first phase, a number of buildings were demolished including buildings on the former Flintkote property. The second phase of the cleanup to be conducted under the final cleanup plan announced today, will address soil and sediment contamination in the creek corridor. The third phase of cleanup, which is still in the investigation stage, will address groundwater and contaminated sediment in the Creek from Lockport to Lake Ontario.
The Superfund program operates on the principle that polluters should pay for the cleanups, rather than passing the costs to taxpayers. The EPA continues to search for parties responsible for the contamination and, if found, will hold them accountable for the costs of investigations and cleanups. While it searches for viable responsible parties, the EPA Superfund program has paid for the cleanup at this site using taxpayer dollars.
The EPA held a public meeting in Lockport on September 7, 2016 to explain its proposed plan. The EPA accepted public comments for 30 days and considered public input before finalizing the plan.
For the record of decision and more information about the Eighteen Mile Creek Superfund Site, visit:
https://www.epa.gov/superfund/eighteenmile-creek
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:53AM
YONKERS, Westchester County (WABC) -- A four-alarm fire burned through a large warehouse complex in Yonkers that includes the historic Alexander Mills carpet factory.
Flames shot through the roof of the warehouse on Lake Avenue at Nepperhan Avenue after the fire broke out at about 4 a.m. Monday.
The warehouse houses several businesses.
Firefighters battled the blaze from the outside. There was heavy fire on the third, fourth and fifth floors.
No injuries were reported.
Members of the YoHo Artist Community work out of two of buildings on the site.
The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Local roads around Nepperhan and Lake Avenues were closed for fire department activity.
California out of 'exceptional drought' category after recent storms
(Left) A map of California from the United States Drought Monitor. (Right) A car drives through a flooded street in Van Nuys on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. (United States Drought Monitor | AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Updated 52 mins ago
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The series of powerful storms to recently douse California has lessened the state's drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, the worst level of drought -- "exceptional drought" -- has been entirely erased from California for the first time in three years.
Just 2.16 percent of the state is in "extreme drought," the group states.
The U.S. Drought Monitor map indicates the 2.16 percent includes portions of Santa Barbara, Ventura, Kern and Los Angeles counties.
At its height, nearly 60 percent of the state was under "exceptional drought."
During this wet season, Los Angeles has received 216 percent of normal rainfall to date.
Despite this, California's top water regulator is not ready to lift emergency conservation measures enacted during the height of the drought.
"It makes the most sense to continue steady as she goes," State Water Resources Control Board chairwoman Felicia Marcus told The Associated Press after the latest in a series of storms brought more snow to the mountains and record-breaking rainfall to parts of the Southland.
Marcus and the other four board members will decide Feb. 7 whether to extend measures requiring local water districts to enforce conservation rules, provide monthly reports on water usage and show they have a three-year water supply.
January typically is the wettest month in California. Marcus said in interviews this week that she is concerned that subsequent months could turn out dry and that California could again be forced to scramble to save water if the restrictions are not kept in place.
California has endured more than five years of drought. In January 2014, Gov. Jerry Brown declared an emergency, later ordering residents statewide to cut water use by 25 percent - the first mandate of its kind in the state's history.
