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SNOW from House Road, on the other hand, was badly flooded. “It was like a winter Sandy there,” he said. Kearny Fire Chief Steve Dyl said he noticed “a lot of [private] vehicles broken down” in the storm. No surprise there, Dyl said, given that “you had a 30-inch snowstorm with drifts.” In East Newark, Police Chief/DPW coordinator Anthony Monteiro said the borough was on target with its snow clearance program. “I’d say for about 75% of our streets, you could see blacktop,” he said. And, he said, the borough made good use of a rented front-end loader for plowing and cleaning out our lots.” Belleville Mayor Raymond Kimble said: “We got most of our main roads clear. As for the secondary roads, we were running into the problem of people throwing snow into the street to shovel out their cars which made it difficult for plows to get down some streets.” In North Arlington, borough street crews — hampered a bit by “some equipment breakdowns” — got help from five private contractors in taking away the snow, according to Councilman
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Rich Hughes. He said some of the snow is being dumped in the Passaic River by the Passaic Valley sewer facility and also some in municipal parking lots. Some cars parked along snow emergency routes were towed, he said. In Lyndhurst, Public Works Commissioner Matt Ruzzo said local street department crews “did a fine job with what we had” but, as in other communities, had to contend with residents clearing driveways and “blowing snow into the street,” triggering complaints that a street hadn’t been cleaned, which meant that a crew had to go back to a block previously plowed. “We put out an advisory a few days before the storm asking residents not to throw snow into the street,” Ruzzo said, but he acknowledged it was tough to enforce. “Problem is there are too many cars parked on both sides of the street,” he said. In Nutley, Mayor Al Petracco said the township always does well during major snow emergencies and that this storm was no different. “Everything’s gone so well,” Petracco said. “The main streets, you can see blacktop. Most of the side streets are
clear. Our DPW did a fantastic job as they always do.” Petracco said he was glad school was canceled Monday, giving the DPW and the school district the time it needed to clear snow away. For the next few days, he urges “parents to try to walk their kids to school.” “In some cases, the snow banks are 7-, 8-feet high,” Petracco said. “It will make turning a lot more difficult in cars. So if they can, I hope parents will walk their kids to school for the time being.” Petracco said there were no fires or major incidents during the storm, but there were several shoveling-related emergencies. “The squad got a few calls for chest pain related to shoveling, but because the streets were clear, there were no issues getting to the patients who needed help because the vehicles could easily pass,” he said. “During these storms, we beef up our manpower and everyone did an excellent job. We train for times like this so that when it really happens, it’s not like a drill. They’ve all been well prepared for what they faced.”