Fire Rescue News - No one injured as car erupts in flames in Stone Harbor

Phone calls, including one from a banner plane, poured into the Middle Township Police Department early Saturday afternoon to report thick, black smoke soaring into the air.

The source of the smoke was the car owned by....Continue Reading 

Shawn O'Donnell, 32, of Blue Bell, Pa., that had become fully engulfed in fire at about 1:30 p.m., police said.

O'Donnell told police he was driving with his 5-year-old son to Stone Harbor when smoke started coming from the passenger side dashboard.

O'Donnell pulled out of traffic into the Harbor Landings condominium complex on Stone Harbor Boulevard and exited the car with his son before it erupted into flames.

The Court House and Stone Harbor fire companies extinguished the blaze. Early indications suggest that an electrical malfunction, possibly from a recently replaced wiper motor, caused the fire, police said.

The car and most of its contents were destroyed, while another vehicle in the complex suffered minor heat damage from the fire.

There were no injuries.