MARGATE--A Margate family is displaced after a kitchen fire destroyed the residence.

Around 12 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, a fire broke out in the kitchen at a home on the 200 block of Vendome Avenue.

Two residents were home at the time of the fire and the male occupant suffered from smoke inhalation from trying to put out the flames before the fire department arrived.

Firefighters quickly put out the blaze, but say the house is uninhabitable due to heavy smoke and water damage.

The cause of the blaze remains under investigation.

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Hammonton Fire and Rescue were dispatched to Route 206 & Route 30 at 7:24pm on Nov 23rd for a MVA over turned with two ejections. The Fire Department landed the helicopter at the Hammonton Air Port. One person was transported by air to an unknown Tramra unit. One other person was transported to Kessler Hospital by ground ambulance.

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HAMMONTON -- Three people were injured in a three-vehicle accident in the 800 block of Twelfth Street, police said.

One of the drivers involved -- Domingo Quintero, 27, of Hammonton -- was charged with driving while intoxicated, police said.

The crash occurred at about 8:30 p.m. Friday in the southbound lane near the On Site storage facility.

Quintero's vehicle struck the back of another car driven by Patricia Arena, 49, of Folsom, police said.

Arena's vehicle was pushed into the northbound lane, where it collided head-on with a vehicle driven by Rebecca Crema, 22, of Port Republic, police said.

Arena's vehicle overturned and Crema's vehicle caught fire, police said.

Arena, Crema and a passenger in Crema's car -- Samuel Cohen, 19, of Galloway -- were taken to area hospitals for treatment, police said.



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From the Atlantic City Press Published: Sunday, November 16, 2008

From Press staff reports

An off-duty firefighter pulled a woman suffering from smoke inhalation from the scene of a house fire Saturday morning in Brigantine, according to Lt. Joseph Maguire.

The Fire Department received a report of a house fire at about 10:39 a.m., Maguire said.

As units were responding, Capt. Alan Weidner was driving by the house on Roosevelt Boulevard. He stopped and entered the smoke-filled building, where he discovered and then removed a disoriented woman who had been trying to extinguish a kitchen fire.

The unidentified woman was transported by the Fire Department's Basic Life Support Unit to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, City Campus in Atlantic City, where she was treated for smoke inhalation.

The first engine crew on the scene at Roosevelt Boulevard had just responded to an earlier incident on West Shore Drive. The crew entered the one-story house and extinguished what remained of the fire, Maguire said. Crews also put out an additional fire in the clothes washer, where a rug had been placed in an attempt to extinguish the flames.

Damage was estimated at about $25,000, Maguire said. The fire is under investigation by Firefighter Joseph LaVigna.

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From the Atlantic City Press Published: Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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MILLVILLE - An Oak Street man went for overkill to solve an insect problem Thursday morning and ended up destroying his house, a fire official said. Eleven firefighters responded to the 300 block of Oak Street at 11:01 a.m. after the resident set off "bombs," or cannisters of insecticide, to kill the bugs in his home, the fire official said. He used many more than recommended by the manufacturer, and the pilot light from his stove ignited the fumes and caused an explosion, the fire official said.

No one was injured, but the city construction official condemned the house, the fire official said.

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From the Atlantic City Press Published: Monday, November 03, 2008

By JULIET FLETCHER Staff Writer, 856-237-9020

BUENA BOROUGH - The town's emergency dispatch is at a crossroads. Two months ago, the borough's nearby neighbor, Buena Vista, said it no longer would use Buena Borough's dispatch center to handle emergency calls.

Now Buena's leaders say they are considering a plan that would move the center to the other end of the county. And one local dispatcher says any future plan has to account for how the area's volunteer fire companies operate.

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