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LOWER TWP. -- Two people were hospitalized and a family has been displaced after their home burst into flames early Tuesday morning.

Fire crews were called to the 200 block of West New Jersey Avenue in the Villas Section of the township around 2:15am.

That's where flames engulfed the small home, with five people still inside. Fortunately they were able to get out safely.

However, two were taken to Cape Regional Medical Center with minor to moderate injuries.

Officials have ruled the fire to be accidental.

Video and a photo gallery from the family reunion.

LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — Shortly after U.S. Army Spc. Brandon Grochala first arrived in Iraq last year, he called his mother to check in.

“The call started normal enough,” Patricia Jones recalled Monday. “But ended with the sound of chaos and my son shouting: ‘They’re bombing us!’”

“They like to shoot mortars at us,” the 22-year-old township resident would later surmise. “You learn that you constantly have to.....Continue Reading 

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