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Fire-Rescue News- West Cape May seeks review of fire company after letter from Cape May fire chief

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By RICHARD DEGENER Staff Writer | Posted: Friday, April 16, 2010 | 1 comment

WEST CAPE MAY - The borough is asking the state to review operations at the local volunteer fire company after a neighboring fire chief raised safety concerns.

Borough Commissioner Ramsey Geyer said the review was spawned by an April 6 letter he received from....Continue Reading

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Fire-Rescue News- Pedestrian dies when driver, 84, backs over her in car, Absecon police say

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 By DEREK HARPER Staff Writer | Posted: Saturday, April 17, 2010 | 16 comments

ABSECON - A pedestrian died Friday afternoon when an 84-year-old driver backed into with her car on Station Avenue, city police said.

Lorraine Marschall, of Egg Harbor City, backed out of a parking space on the first block of Station and into the woman, killing her, at 2:12 p.m., police said.

Police have not......Continue Reading

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Fire-Rescue News- Driver still unidentified in fatal Mullica car crash

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By LEE PROCIDA Staff Writer | Posted: Friday, April 16, 2010 | 2 comments

MULLICA TOWNSHIP - On the southern side of Route 30, less than a mile east of Elwood Road, is a place on the shoulder where someone raked the leaves and garbage away, laid brick pavers and woodchips, and left a memorial for Christine Rivera and Belinda Dillihay.

Both Atlantic City women lost their lives there March 31 when a truck swerved across the four-lane highway and....Continue Reading

 

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Fire-Rescue News- Bomb Squad removes mortar round unearthed at construction site in Lower Township

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By RICHARD DEGENER | Posted: Thursday, April 15, 2010 | 1 comment

Atlantic City Bomb Squad officers Sgt. Bud Brubaker (left) and Sgt. Jerry Barnhart, secure the ordnance inside their truck. Constructions workers discovered an unexploded military ordnance while digging behind AABA Family Medical Supply on Bayshore and E. Wilde Avenues in the Villas section of Lower Township. Officers from the Atlantic City Bomb Squad were called to dispose of the ordnance. According to AC Bomb Squad officer Sgt. Bud Brubaker, the item was a WWII type military type projectile and was live. The shell was secured and put in the bomb squad truck for transport. The ordnance was reported at 12:45 pm and a 300 ft. radius around the site was evacuated for safety. No injuries were reported. ....Continue Reading 

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EVFC Incident #47 04/14/2010 at 4:20pm - 28 Mullica Way for a CO Alarm

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False Alarm - Faulty Detector. All units were clear at 4:50pm.

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Fire-Rescue News- Brush fires disrupt traffic near Route 30 and Delilah Road in Pleasantville

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Homes on Redwood Avenue in Pleasantville are evacuated Wednesday due to smoke from nearby brush fires. 

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Posted: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | 0 comments

Several brush fires near where Delilah Road meets Route 30 in the marshy area between Pleasantville and Atlantic City are disrupting traffic and NJ Transit trains.

Homes along Redwood and California avenues are being evacuated as a precuation.....Continue Reading with Video

This story is developing; check here for updates.

(EVFC has learned that the fires are being reported to be from a train car sparking and creating fire down the train track in Absecon, Galloway & Egg Harbor City.)

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Local News - Police investigate desecration of gravestones in Egg Harbor City

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By LEE PROCIDA, Staff Writer | Posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 | 5 comments

EGG HARBOR CITY - Satanic messages were spray-painted on about 40 gravestones and a building in the Egg Harbor Cemetery sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning, police said.

The graffiti, in black and red paint, was concentrated on some of the oldest headstones in the graveyard, which was....Continue Reading

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