Three neighbors helped pull a woman from her smoke-filled Atlantic City apartment, possibly saving her life.

The fire started at about 4:45 a.m. Saturday in a three-story apartment located in the unit block of North Mansion Avenue, in the city's Downtown section.

A truck fire slowed rush-hour traffic Tuesday on the Black Horse Pike in Egg Harbor Township.

The truck caught fire at about 4:45 p.m. near the English Creek Avenue intersection. The truck was in the left turning lane on the westbound side of the Black Horse Pike.

Black smoke and flames poured from the truck's.......Continue Reading 

A passerby helped save a Galloway Township home from burning by controlling the blaze with a garden hose before firefighters could arrive.

Galloway police said a man - who declined to give his name - was walking on the 400 block of South Xanthus Avenue at 12:51 p.m. Thursday when he noticed a fire in a room of a single family home, according to a release.

The man left shortly afterward telling police "I was glad to help," police said.

The fire was contained to one room, though it sustained heat and smoke damaged and authorities said it was uninhabitable.

The cause of the fire was still under investigation, police said.

Contact Joel Landau: 609-272-7215 JLandau@pressofac.com

MULLICA TOWNSHIP — Evelyn Ricci has lived along Pleasant Mills Road in the Weekstown section of the township for all of her 88 years.

As a child, there was no electricity at her family’s dairy farm, and she delivered milk in the mornings before class in the one-room schoolhouse across the street.

Her maiden name was Weeks — a third generation descendant of....Continue Reading