On April 6 at 11:40 p.m., Hammonton, N.J. crews were dispatched for a building fire at 700 Reading Ave. in Atlantic County.

Command reported a 150 x 50 warehouse with heavy fire showing.

Companies began arriving and setting up for defensive operations. Special calls were made for tanker task force.

Crews went in to operation with multiple 2 1/2- inch hand lines and ladder pipes. Second and third alarms were dispatched for additional manpower and tankers.

Mutual aid tankers were called from Camden and Gloucester counties.

The building contained a pool manufacturing plant.

No injuries were reported on the fire ground.

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Posted in Atlantic on Monday, May 4, 2009 3:05 am

From Press staff reports

BUENA VISTA TOWNSHIP - Four people were injured when a Dodge Neon collided head-on with a Chevy Trailblazer at 10:52 p.m. Saturday at Landis Avenue and Tuckahoe Road, State Police said.

The driver of the Dodge, Dana Scarpine, 18, of the Richland section of the township, was taken by South Star helicopter to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, City Campus, in Atlantic City. Her passenger, Alicia Davis, 17, of Newfield, Gloucester County, was taken to ARMC City Campus by ambulance.

The driver of the Chevy, Nicole Ablett, 28, and her husband, Jaime Ablett, 31, of Galloway Township, were treated for minor injuries at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Mainland Campus, in Galloway.

No tickets had been issued as of Sunday afternoon, and the cause of the accident was under investigation.

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Posted: Friday, May 1, 2009 4:00 am

Egg Harbor Township - Township police are looking for help in solving a blaze that burned down a storage shed near a house last week.

The fire happened at 1:45 a.m. April 24 in the Scullville section, and 18 firefighters fought the flames. No one was hurt.

Sgt. Robert Gray said Thursday that township Fire Inspector Don Stauffer determined the fire was intentionally set. The investigation is being handled by Detective John Heim and Mark Wagner.

Anyone with information should call the township Detective Division at 926-4051 or contact Atlantic County Crime Stoppers at 609-652-1234. Crime Stoppers program offers a cash reward of as much as $2,000 for tips leading to an indictment, and callers can remain anonymous.

Compiled by staff writers Elaine Rose, Eric Scott Campbell, Steven Lemongello and Michelle Lee.

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Egg Harbor Township - A township restaurant burned for the second time in 2-weeks Wednesday morning at 1:30am.

The emergency call came in at about 1:30 a.m. for the former Our Place Too restaurant at Zion Road and Dover Avenue, Callers reported a boat on fire behind the restaurant and quickly spread to the building.

More than 20 firefighters from the Bargaintown and Scullville volunteer fire departments battled the blaze, which took about 45 minutes to get under control.  The restaurant was under renovation at the time of the first fire.

The fire is being investigated by the township fire inspector.

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The weather conditions must have been just right this morning for us to be able to pick up NY on our live scanner feed.

NEW YORK – Part of a vacant five-story building that had recently been cited collapsed in lower Manhattan on Thursday morning, leaving mounds of rubble and slightly injuring three people, officials said.

Emergency crews with a dog searched the site and a neighboring building as a precaution, and three people — two firefighters and one civilian — were treated at a hospital for minor injuries, fire officials said. Their conditions weren't available...Continue Reading

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