From the Atlantic City Press Published: Friday, June 13, 2008

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP - Decreased water pressure forced AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center's Mainland Campus to postpone elective surgeries Thursday (June 12th) afternoon and divert emergency patients to other area hospitals.

Water pressure dropped due to an off-site problem at about 1 p.m. at the facility off Jimmie Leeds Road in the Pomona section, according to an e-mail from hospital spokeswoman Jennifer Tornetta.

Less than 10 elective surgeries were postponed. Emergency patients were instead taken to hospitals including Shore Memorial in Somers Point and AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, City Campus in Atlantic City, Tornetta said.

Everything was back to normal and the hospital was no longer diverting patients as of about 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Tornetta said.

(Galloway Twp Fire Department stood by with pumpers and tankers until the water pressure was restored)

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From the Atlantic City Press Published: Thursday, June 12, 2008

ATLANTIC CITY

A two-alarm fire damaged a house on North Delancy Place on Wednesday evening and displaced an unknown number of people, but there were no injuries, Fire Chief Dennis Brooks said.

The fire in the three-story, wood-frame house started in the basement kitchen at about 6:30 p.m., and all occupants had escaped by time firefighters arrived, Brooks said.

"We had fire in the kitchen and all the way up to the roof," Brooks said.

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From the Atlantic City Press Published: Monday, June 08, 2008

By ERIK ORTIZ Staff Writer, 609-272-7253

In March 2007, Ellen Mulvihill returned home to find her Barnegat Township house on fire. A house guest's cigarette left in the backyard ignited a propane tank, she said. The flames gutted her home and any sense of normalcy.

As a victim of careless smoking, Mulvihill was pleased to hear New Jersey's self-extinguish cigarette law went into effect this month after the state Legislature passed it a year ago.

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From the Atlantic City Press Published: Sunday, June 08, 2008

By ERIC SCOTT CAMPBELL Staff Writer, 609-272-7227

PLEASANTVILLE - Two women were pinned by their car and extricated with nonlife-threatening injuries after the car they were in was struck and landed upside-down in the parking lot of the Atlantic City Visitors Center, State Police said.











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The Ann Arbor News (Michigan)

Dennis Carmichael had just spoken in Detroit about his inventory-tracking technology for auto suppliers a few years ago when a fire department commander approached him with an idea.

"If we can track inventory like this, why can't we track people on a fire scene?" said the commander, John Ellis.

It was the beginning of a partnership between Carmichael and Ellis to form the Ann Arbor company ERT Systems LLC.

Using Carmichael's technology, which closely resembled the tracking tags used to prevent retail theft, and Ellis' software background, they created a system that could quickly account for large groups of firefighters in the chaos of an emergency.

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From the Atlantic City Press Published: Friday, June 06, 2008

NORTHFIELD - Beth Israel Reform Congregation synagogue took a "direct hit" from a bolt of lightning Wednesday evening, igniting a fire that damaged parts of the roof.

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