Thursday, January 29 2009 @ 03:46 am EST
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Published: Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Press staff reports
A dozen people were displaced Wednesday afternoon from their rooming house on Westminster Place when the gas boiler caught fire, officials said.
One of the residents called for help at about 4:51 p.m. after smelling smoke in the rooming house on the 100 block of Westminster Place, Battalion Chief Gary Holmes said. Firefighters arrived to find flames coming from the furnace on the first floor. A second alarm was called because it was a multiunit dwelling and nearby structures might be in danger, Holmes said.
“Our biggest concern was getting all the occupants out,” Holmes said, adding that firefighters went through the rooms evacuating all the residents.
Eight adults and four children were displaced by the fire. They were taken to other properties in the city that the landlord owns, said Tom Foley, chief of emergency management.
The residents stood across the street, getting drenched in a cold rain, as they waited for permission to go inside to retrieve their belongings.
The building was declared uninhabitable because there was no heat, Holmes said. The fire marshal will determine if the residents can move back in once the furnace is fixed.
Monday, January 26 2009 @ 01:57 pm EST
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Published: Monday, January 26, 2009
From Press staff reports
VENTNOR - A basement blaze turned into a two-alarm fire and partially destroyed a multi-story building Sunday evening on Nashville Avenue.
Firefighters responded to a report of smoke coming from a duplex at 4 S. Nashville Ave. at 7:27 p.m. Upon arrival, they found a fire in the basement that quickly escalated to a two-alarm blaze with flames spreading to the first and second floors, Chief Bert Sabo said.
Firefighters got the blaze under control in about an hour, despite having to wait briefly for an electric crew to arrive and cut power to the building, Sabo said.
No humans were injured, but a resident living in the second-floor apartment building lost several pets in the fire, said Sabo, adding that the building suffered extensive smoke damage and will not be habitable for some time.
The Margate City Fire Department also responded to the fire.
Officials were still investigating the cause of the fire late Sunday night.
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Sunday, January 25 2009 @ 08:31 pm EST
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One of our fellow firefighters from Egg Harbor City is recovering from a fall from a deer stand while hunting in the Elwood section of Mullica Twp. Phillip Cunningham, 26 of Egg Habor City broke both ankles when he fell Jan 2nd.
Phil had surgery to repair his ankle at Atlantic Care Medical Center City Division shorty after the fall. He had a plate and pins inserted in his ankle to help his ankle heal properly.
Phil will be in a wheel chair for about six months.
Elwood Firemen were called to help carry Phil out of the woods after the fall. Forest Fire C-8 (Rusty Fenton), E16-3, R16-4, and a Weekstown Truck also responded to the scene.
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GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP - Four people were injured in an early morning accident that shut down two lanes on the northbound side of the Garden State Parkway, State Police said.
A car traveling from Atlantic City went off the road near mile post 40.4, went over a guard rail and overturned several times at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, police said.
The driver, Raymond Cifarone, 33, of Toms River, and his front-seat passenger, Evelyn Raini, 36, of Union, were trapped in the car and had to be removed. The two back-seat passengers, Chad Smith, 32, of Toms River, and Emily Raini, 30, of Union, managed to get out of the car on their own, police said.
One lane of the parkway was closed to allow helicopters to take Cifarone and Evelyn Raini, who had serious injuries, to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, City Campus in Atlantic City, police said. Smith and Emily Raini were taken to AtlantiCare by ambulance.
Friday, January 23 2009 @ 04:30 pm EST
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Published: Thursday, January 22, 2009
By EMILY PREVITI, Staff Writer, 609-272-7221
Absecon City Fire Company No. 1 will get $29,920 in federal funding to recruit, train and retain volunteer firefighters, according to a statement released Thursday by the office of U.S. Rep. Frank A. LoBiondo, R-2. The money will come from the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response program in the Department of Homeland Security, according to the statement.
The SAFER program has about $180.5 million to award to local fire departments specifically for the recruitment and retention of volunteer and professional firefighters. More information is available at www.firegrantsupport.com/safer.
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The owners escaped when their house on Delaware Avenue caught fire Monday afternoon, but the family dog perished, Assistant Chief Bob Dube of the Bargaintown Fire Company said.
The fire was determined to be accidental and apparently started at about 4:15 p.m. when a block in the fireplace cracked and flames went through the wall into the garage, Dube said. The damage has not yet been determined, but the home is not habitable.
