Fire/Rescue News - Atlantic County 8/4/09
Posted: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 | 0 comments
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.
