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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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Fire-Rescue News- Police in Absecon search for suspect after car fire

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From Press staff reports | Posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 | 0 comments

Someone set fire to a car parked on Oyster Bay Road in Absecon, police said Monday, and they are looking for the suspect.

Several people called 911 at about 2 a.m. Sunday to report a car on fire in the parking lot of Building 27 in the Oyster Bay Complex, police said. Officers and firefighters arrived to find the car fully engulfed in flames. The owner lives in a nearby building.

At least one other vehicle in the parking lot also was damaged, police said. Anyone with information on the fire is asked to call Absecon police at 609-641-0667.

Posted in BREAKING | ATLANTIC on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 8:25 am Updated: 2:22 pm.

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Fire/Rescue News - 7-Alarm Inferno Hits Chinatown, NY

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A raging seven-alarm fire, visible for miles, ripped through three buildings in Chinatown last night, injuring 14 people and leaving as many as 100 people homeless.

A 93-year-old man living in one of the buildings was....Continue Reading with more Vido & Photos

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Local News - Mullica man to run as lone Democrat, and without party backing, against U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo

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By JULIET FLETCHER, Statehouse Bureau | Posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 | 0 comments

Eight-term U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo, R-2nd, looks like he may face no party-backed Democratic opposition in his race for re-election this November.

Unofficial petitions filed Monday with the state Division of Elections show the only candidate to file as a Democrat for the congressional seat is Gary Stein, a Mullica Township resident who has run in past elections as a......Continue Reading

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