Worker Injured in Ventnor Fire
Posted: Thursday, August 6, 2009 | 0 comments
VENTNOR - A worker refinishing a wooden floor was burned this afternoon when a spark somehow lit the polyurethane coating he was using and the fire spread to the man's pants, a city fire official said.
Fire Capt. Tom O'Brien said investigators are trying to determine what actually caused a fire that started on the first floor of a home in the 100 block of North Oxford Avenue in the Ventnor Heights section of town. The fire department got the call about 1:20 p.m.
A Margate fire department ambulance took the worker to the Regional Trauma Unit at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City, but no information was available on his condition later in the afternoon.
O'Brien credited a neighbor who ran into the house using a home fire extinguisher with keeping the fire from spreading much more than it did around the living room and dining room of the two-story house. As it was, O'Brien estimated the home suffered $10,000-$20,000 worth of damage, mostly from smoke and water.
Capt. Jim Culbertson, Lt. Kyle Smith and Firefighter Jack Hyde are investigating what caused the fire.
Posted in Breaking, Atlantic on Thursday, August 6, 2009 4:55 pm
