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Kitchen fire damages Boardwalk home

Ventnor - A Boardwalk home sustained about $35,000 worth of damage in a cooking accident, the city's fire chief said Monday. But the residents were able to move back into the home by Sunday night after firefighters put the smoky blaze out that day.

The fire apparently started when the owners of the home at Derby Avenue and the Boardwalk were using the broiler to cook, and fire somehow got into the exhaust vent and spread into a kitchen wall, Chief Bert Sabo said.

The Fire Department's Platoon 3 had to open an outside wall of the house to contain the fire, which started shortly before noon Sunday. The firefighters declared the fire under control by 12:14 p.m.

Sabo said the house took extensive smoke damage but the firefighters "got in and got (the fire) out." The electricity had to be cut off, but the homeowners got their power restored later and could stay in the house safely that night, he added.

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Lightning cited in Sea Village Harbor fire

Egg Harbor Township - Lightning might have created a small fire on a dock at the Sea Village Harbor Marina over the weekend, according to the township.

Township Fire Inspector Don Stauffer said the small dock fire happened at about 2:10 p.m. Sunday after a storm went through the region. Stauffer, who investigated the site Monday, said the marina residents had already put the flames out out with fire extinguishers by the time Bargaintown firefighters arrived.

No one was hurt and most of the damage was done to the television cables that run below the docks and connect to the floating homes and house boats in the marina.

Stauffer said lightning struck somewhere else in the neighborhood and the electricity might have traveled through other power lines and into the marina's television cables. "Lightning does what it wants, goes where it wants and uses different paths," Stauffer said Monday.

Compiled by staff writers Eric Scott Campbell, Martin DeAngelis and Michelle Lee.

Posted in Atlantic on Tuesday, August 4, 2009 3:30 am Updated: 5:53 am.

The Elwood Vol. Fire Company was called at 1:27pm on Sun August 2nd to assist the Mullica Police with traffic at the Route 30 & Elwood rd light due to a power outage. Crews directed traffic for 5 hours until Atlantic Electric resorted power which affected a large portion of Elwood. All Elwood units were clear at 5:45pm.

HAMMONTON -- The town's longest-serving fire chief received a special honor July 27 when the town and fire department officially dedicated a new fire truck in his honor.

The 2009 Pierce Impel pumper truck was dedicated to Jack Donio, who served as fire chief from 1988 to 2002.

"I'll never forget this night. I love the town and I love the fire department," Donio, who received the chief emeritus rank when he retired, during the ceremony outside Town Hall....Continue Reading

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