Found Wires arching on tree. Recalled Weekstown Fire Company Waited for Electric Company, All units were clear at 8:00am

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The New Jersey Forest Fire Service has a warning for South Jersey. 

Wednesday and Thursday are being considered high risks for forest fires. 

Due to the dry, cold weather along with the windy conditions leads to an enhanced fire weather danger. 

"...Be very careful with campfires, with these cold nights people are burning their fireplaces and wood stoves, any time they discard ashes we want to make sure they're completely out, and where they discard them, be very careful, where they discard them," said Russ Fenton, Section Warden of the NJ Forest Fire Service.

On Monday, a forest fire ripped through more than 80 acres in Hamilton Township.

Stations 160 and 161 were dispatched to a vehicle fire at the intersection of White Horse Pike and Weymouth-Elwood Road. Upon arrival, the driver of a commercial vehicle had extinguish the fire coming from the locked up brakes of his vehicle. Fire department took no action and cleared scene.

Found gas leaking from range/oven. Shut off gas & electric to range/oven- made safe. Notified Gas Company. All units were clear at 9:07am

Posted in The Atlantic City Press: Saturday, November 9, 2013 12:00 am

By STEVEN LEMONGELLO, Staff writer

A Hammonton man was struck and killed by a Mullica Township police car patrolling the scene of an unexplained accident, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office said.

Frank Perri Jr., 44, of Hammonton, was struck by a patrol car driven by Mullica police Officer Ryan Hutton shortly before 5 a.m. Friday, acting Atlantic County Prosecutor Jim McClain said in a statement.

Hutton was investigating an abandoned vehicle found crashed into a pole and disabled on the northbound side of Weymouth Road, McClain said. Hamilton Township police, who initially found the car, were unable to locate a driver.

As Hutton was patrolling the crash area, Perri — the apparent driver of the disabled car — allegedly walked into the road directly into the path of Hutton’s patrol car and was struck, McClain said.

Perri was pronounced dead at the scene. Hutton was taken to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Mainland Campus in Galloway Township, for nonlife-threatening injuries.

The Medical Examiner’s Office will conduct an autopsy on Perri, McClain said.

Anyone with information about the crash is asked to call the Atlantic County Crash Investigations Unit at 609-909-7692.

Contact Steven Lemongello: 609-272-7275 SLemongello@pressofac.com

Posted in The Atlantic City Press: Saturday, November 9, 2013 8:39 am