Posted: Friday, May 1, 2009 4:00 am

Egg Harbor Township - Township police are looking for help in solving a blaze that burned down a storage shed near a house last week.

The fire happened at 1:45 a.m. April 24 in the Scullville section, and 18 firefighters fought the flames. No one was hurt.

Sgt. Robert Gray said Thursday that township Fire Inspector Don Stauffer determined the fire was intentionally set. The investigation is being handled by Detective John Heim and Mark Wagner.

Anyone with information should call the township Detective Division at 926-4051 or contact Atlantic County Crime Stoppers at 609-652-1234. Crime Stoppers program offers a cash reward of as much as $2,000 for tips leading to an indictment, and callers can remain anonymous.

Compiled by staff writers Elaine Rose, Eric Scott Campbell, Steven Lemongello and Michelle Lee.

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Egg Harbor Township - A township restaurant burned for the second time in 2-weeks Wednesday morning at 1:30am.

The emergency call came in at about 1:30 a.m. for the former Our Place Too restaurant at Zion Road and Dover Avenue, Callers reported a boat on fire behind the restaurant and quickly spread to the building.

More than 20 firefighters from the Bargaintown and Scullville volunteer fire departments battled the blaze, which took about 45 minutes to get under control.  The restaurant was under renovation at the time of the first fire.

The fire is being investigated by the township fire inspector.

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The weather conditions must have been just right this morning for us to be able to pick up NY on our live scanner feed.

NEW YORK – Part of a vacant five-story building that had recently been cited collapsed in lower Manhattan on Thursday morning, leaving mounds of rubble and slightly injuring three people, officials said.

Emergency crews with a dog searched the site and a neighboring building as a precaution, and three people — two firefighters and one civilian — were treated at a hospital for minor injuries, fire officials said. Their conditions weren't available...Continue Reading

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Hamilton Township - An ice cream vendor taking advantage of the unseasonably warm weather Sunday ended up with a traffic ticket after her truck hit a fire hydrant and flooded a condominium complex, according to a statement released Monday by township police.

Gale Wallace, 31, of Mays Landing, stalled when she tried to stop the 34-year-old truck at 7:52 p.m. Sunday at Woodland Drive and Leipzig Avenue within Woodlands Condominiums off the Black Horse Pike in Mays Landing, police said.

The van rolled backward, jumped a curb and knocked over a fire hydrant. Water flooded the complex, where residents went without water for about a half-hour while crews shut down the road to repair the damage, according to the statement.

The back entrance to the complex was still closed as repairs continue, Lt. Ed Barr said Monday.

Wallace was not injured and was able to drive her truck from the scene. Officer Kevin Graham issued her a summons for careless driving, police said.

OREGON CITY, Ore. -- An Oregon City man just couldn't catch a break Friday -- first he lost his job and then he returned home to find his house on fire. 

 Victor Gonzalez said there was a silver lining to getting fired Friday.

 "If I hadn’t gotten fired from work, I wouldn’t have come home, and I don’t know how far the fire would’ve gotten. So I guess that’s a good thing," he said.

 The single father lost his job and his house in a matter of two hours Friday morning....Continue Reading and here 911 call

By DAN GOOD, Staff Writer, 609-272-7218 | Posted: Sunday, April 26, 2009 3:10 am | 0 comments

LOWER TOWNSHIP - Fire destroyed the Villas Lumber Co.'s lumber yard early Saturday morning, turning plywood, building supplies and family history into a charred, smoldering mess.

The company's owner thinks the fire was intentionally set.

The fire started just after midnight, on the 1500 block of Bayshore Road. It took firefighters hours to put out the blaze, which reached high into the dark sky and melted the siding off a house across the street....Continue Reading