Officers in North Arlington heard a commotion near Union Avenue and Third Street on Thursday and found the woman holding off her dog, a five-year-old Whippet mix as she fought off a pit bull.

Phyllis Goodman was walking her Whippet on Union Avenue near Third Street at 8 a.m. when she was approached by the pit bull, which had escaped from its Lyndhurst owner via an unsecured gate ...