ATV caught fire and extended to woods. Assisted NJ Forest Fire Service with extinguishing ATV and woods. Total of 0.25 acres burned. NJ Transit police had train slowed down. All units cleared at 9:00pm

Posted: Friday, March 4, 2016 5:36 am

MICHELLE BRUNETTI POST

Staff Writer The Press of Atlantic City

After a year of design work and hundreds of thousands of dollars spent, Atlantic County's centralized dispatch plan is effectively dead.

To pay about $351,000 to Stockton University in Galloway Township for its share of design of a building that would have housed both the county dispatch center and Stockton's police force.

But no further work will be done. "We are paying a final bill," said County Administrator Jerry DelRosso. "That's the end of that."

DelRosso said only six of 23 municipalities returned surveys with updated information on how much the towns are currently spending on emergency dispatch services. So the county did not have information needed to proceed.

Freeholder Ernest Coursey said that was a clear message most are not interested in pursuing the idea.

The building, with an estimated price tag of about.......Continue Reading  

Single car vehicle accident hit a pole. Wires were hanging down very low in west bound lanes. Closed west bound lanes and redirected traffic at Darmstadt Ave. Stood by until electric company arrived and removed wires. All units cleared scene at 6:02am

Arrived to a water leak in the basement. Secured water. Notified homeowner to call a plumber. Cleared scene.

Smoldering logs from controlled burn that state forestry did over the weekend. C-8 on scene.

 

The New Jersey Forest Fire Service is working on containing a blaze near Millville, Cumberland County.

The brush fire started burning around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday along Route 49 and Estelle Manor Road.

No injuries have been reported.

A cause of the fire has not been determined as of yet.