Tuesday, December 22 2009 @ 09:33 am EST
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By ELAINE ROSE Staff Writer | Posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 | 2 comments
ATLANTIC CITY - An 8-year-old boy was arrested Monday afternoon and charged with setting a fire in a North Carolina Avenue apartment that displaced four people, a fire official said.
The fire was reported at 1:30 p.m. Monday in the Atlantic Garden Apartments in the 100 block of N. North Carolina Avenue, the same complex where firefighters rescued two boys from an Oct. 24 blaze, Battalion Chief Michael Mooney said.....Continue Reading
Sunday, December 20 2009 @ 01:18 pm EST
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From Press staff reports | Posted: Saturday, December 19, 2009 | 0 comments
A fire sparked by lights on a live Christmas tree caused significant damage to a Millville home, a fire official said.
The fire was reported at about 7:15 p.m. Saturday at a two-story house on the 300 block of Crest Avenue, fire Capt. Doug Hallquist said, and was brought under control in about two hours, although a few fire trucks became stuck in the snow.
Nobody was home at the time of the fire, Hallquist said, and the fire displaced two to three people.
Saturday, December 19 2009 @ 12:24 pm EST
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The Dorothy rescue squad and fire company were called to a attempted suicide in Estell Manor. The Dorothy Fire Company used their thermal imaging camera to help find the victim who ran off into the woods.
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NORTHFIELD — A fire that was thought to be under control instead raged into an inferno that destroyed half of a medical office building....Continue Reading with more video.
GALLOWAY TWP.--A fiery wreck in Galloway Township Thursday morning has claimed the life of a Mays Landing woman.
The collision happened around 10:30a.m. at the intersection of Mannheim and Duerer Avenues.
The 70-year-old woman, whose name is not being released, was traveling along Mannheim Avenue when her vehicle entered the intersection and was struck by a Ford van.
The van overturned and quickly caught fire.
Crews extinguished the blaze and took the driver, 40-year-old Rajinder Walia, to an area hospital.
The woman had to be removed from her vehicle and later died at the hospital.
Police believe the woman may have disregarded a stop sign.
The accident remains under investigation.
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LOWER TWP.--A man is in custody and his wife is in the hospital after a car plowed into a home in Lower Township.
Crews spent most of the day at the scene on the 100 block of East Atlantic Avenue in the Villas section of the township.
Witnesses say at around 10:30a.m. Wednesday, the car was speeding and crossed over onto oncoming traffic before it left the roadway and crashed through two fences before impacting the home.
The passenger of the car, 52-year-old Michelle Ruckhardt, had to be removed and was flown to an area hospital.
She is listed in stable condition with facial and hip injuries.
The driver, 55-year-old Bernard Ruckhardt, was not injured but has been taken into custody on charges of DWI and reckless driving.
Police say the home is used as a summer residence; therefore no one was inside at the time of the crash.
However, the house was knocked about three feet off its foundation, and has been condemned.
Officials are working to remove the vehicle without the home collapsing.
The accident remains under investigation.
