How a pooch was rescued from PATH station escalator
Updated Apr 15, 2021;
Posted Apr 15, 2021
Port Authority Police Officer Anthony Manfredini holds a PATH customer’s dog, “Scott,” after Manfredini and other P.A. police officers rescued the dog, which had gotten a paw stuck in the Journal Square PATH Station escalator Wednesday afternoon. Looking on is Sgt. Angel Lopez, right, the dog’s owner, and Port Authority Emergency Service Unit officer Andrew Vignapiano. (Port Authority photo)EJA
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A group of Port Authority police officers are being hailed as heroes after they rescued a PATH rider’s dog from the Journal Square station’s escalator.
Bayonne Bridge traffic stopped while cops rescue stranded possums
Updated Apr 15, 2021;
Thursday was animal rescue day for Port Authority police.
Prior to officers pulling a Pomeranian’s paw out of a moving escalator at the Journal Square PATH station in Jersey City, another group of Port Authority police officers plucked a pair of possums out of the right lane of the Bayonne Bridge.
Officers Michael Latif and Kenneth Sanginari found a possum in the right lane of the bridge Thursday after it was reported to the police department’s Staten Island Bridge Command at 10:22 a.m., officials said. They blocked the right lane of the bridge until the PAPD’s Emergency Service Unit could arrive.
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Port Authority Police Officers Anthony Manfredini and Matthew Maiello heard the dog, Scott, yelping and his owner screaming for help yesterday at the PATH station around 1:11 p.m., according to Port Authority police spokeswoman Lenis Valens.
As a result, Manfredini halted the escalator while Maiello called in Emergency Service Unit Officers Mark Legic, Andrew Vignapiano and Eric Block who arrived quickly and unbolted the escalator’s claw plate while Manfredini held and comforted the injured Pomeranian.
“I spent my life training and caretaking for dogs in the Marine Corps as a K-9 handler and in my personal life. I didn’t have a second thought when it came to cries for help,” Manfredini, who has been a police officer for five years, said in a statement.
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Dog Saved After Paw Gets Stuck in Moving Escalator at Journal Square PATH Station A woman s panicked screams and a yelping sound sent the two Port Authority police officers racing toward the escalator
Published April 15, 2021 •
Updated on April 15, 2021 at 12:07 pm
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Some quick-acting Port Authority police officers rescued a dog that got its paw stuck in an escalator at a Jersey City PATH station Wednesday, authorities say.
Officers Anthony Manfredini and Matthew Maiello were at the Journal Square PATH Station around 1:15 p.m. when the two heard a woman s panic screams, followed by a yelping sound. They race to the source of the noise and found a dog whimpering, its left paw caught in the bottom of an escalator at the station.