New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy Declares State Of Emergency As Storms Cause Damage Across State – CBS New York

RIDGEWOOD, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — There have been reviews of deaths in elements of New Jersey as remnants of Hurricane Ida prompted injury all throughout the state Wednesday.

Passaic Mayor Hector Lora confirmed to CBS2 that they’ve reviews of a number of fatalities of their downtown space.

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They’re believed to have been of their vehicles and swept away within the flash flooding.

Emergency responders in Passaic have been additionally despatched to rescue a number of folks from their houses.

Simply after 10 p.m., Gov. Phil Murphy introduced he was declaring a state of emergency in response to the storm.

“We’ll use each useful resource at our disposal to make sure the protection of New Jerseyans,” he mentioned.

BREAKING: I’m declaring a STATE OF EMERGENCY EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY in response to Tropical Storm Ida.

We’ll use each useful resource at our disposal to make sure the protection of New Jerseyans.

Keep off the roads, keep house, and keep secure.

— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) September 2, 2021

Residents are inspired to remain off the roads.

PSE&G vans have been lined up and down Higher Boulevard in Ridgewood after bushes got here down, taking wires down with it. These wires then sparked fires.

The rain and the lightning have been harmful Wednesday evening. As CBS2’s Jessica Layton reviews, at instances, the lightning was the one factor illuminating darkish streets in Bergen County.

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A number of roads closed on account of flooding, together with aspect streets in addition to parts of Route 3, Route 22 and Route 78.

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Vehicles have been additionally caught on flooded roads in Middlesex County, the place the Raritan River was rising quickly.

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Video taken inside a house in Montclair reveals flood waters pouring in by home windows.

In Newark, automobiles bought caught on Hamilton Avenue and New Jersey Railroad Avenue, and basements have been flooded in Hoboken.

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In West Caldwell, resident Kathy Tempo shot video of water dashing previous her house after a brook that runs adjoining to her home overflowed.

“We may hear the brook dashing, after which, you recognize, between that 8 o’clock hour the place we bought over three inches of rain, it ran over, throughout the road, in direction of our home, down our driveway. It bought into our home, so we’ve spent the night attempting to bail out from that,” she advised CBS2. “However it’s simply actually scary how rapidly it comes.”

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Farther south in New Jersey, it seems a tornado touched down in Mullica Hill in Gloucester County, ripping roofs off houses and, in different circumstances, ripping houses to shreds.

A number of roads in that space are impassable from bushes and wires being strewn throughout them.

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CBS2’s Jessica Layton contributed to this report.