Authorities: Alert newspaper carrier's tip to police leads to rescue of ailing elderly woman
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Authorities say a newspaper carrier concerned about an elderly customer's well-being alerted police, who entered the woman's home and found she apparently had suffered a heart attack several days earlier.
Douglas MacRae delivers The New Jersey Herald. He told the newspaper (http://bit.ly/1yg6KdR ) that he contacted Sparta police on Friday after he noticed the papers he left at 85-year-old Olive Blaison's home had not been collected for a few days.
He also noticed that a light had been left on in the woman's home, which was unusual.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}When officers entered the home, they found Blaison conscious on the floor but unable to get up. She was taken to a hospital, and her niece tells the newspaper that her aunt is recovering and undergoing physical therapy.
Relatives say Blaison lived by herself.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Information from: The New Jersey Herald (Newton, N.J.), http://www.njherald.com