From the Atlantic City Press Published: Monday, June 08, 2008

By ERIK ORTIZ Staff Writer, 609-272-7253

In March 2007, Ellen Mulvihill returned home to find her Barnegat Township house on fire. A house guest's cigarette left in the backyard ignited a propane tank, she said. The flames gutted her home and any sense of normalcy.

As a victim of careless smoking, Mulvihill was pleased to hear New Jersey's self-extinguish cigarette law went into effect this month after the state Legislature passed it a year ago.

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From the Atlantic City Press Published: Sunday, June 08, 2008

By ERIC SCOTT CAMPBELL Staff Writer, 609-272-7227

PLEASANTVILLE - Two women were pinned by their car and extricated with nonlife-threatening injuries after the car they were in was struck and landed upside-down in the parking lot of the Atlantic City Visitors Center, State Police said.











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The Ann Arbor News (Michigan)

Dennis Carmichael had just spoken in Detroit about his inventory-tracking technology for auto suppliers a few years ago when a fire department commander approached him with an idea.

"If we can track inventory like this, why can't we track people on a fire scene?" said the commander, John Ellis.

It was the beginning of a partnership between Carmichael and Ellis to form the Ann Arbor company ERT Systems LLC.

Using Carmichael's technology, which closely resembled the tracking tags used to prevent retail theft, and Ellis' software background, they created a system that could quickly account for large groups of firefighters in the chaos of an emergency.

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From the Atlantic City Press Published: Friday, June 06, 2008

NORTHFIELD - Beth Israel Reform Congregation synagogue took a "direct hit" from a bolt of lightning Wednesday evening, igniting a fire that damaged parts of the roof.

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Shortly after midnight on April 12, Berlin, N.J. firefighters were dispatched for a reported building fire on Rt. 73 at the vacant Camper World building.

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The volunteer fire companies of Cologne, Mays Landing, Laureldale (Hamilton Twp.) and Cardiff (Egg Harbor Twp.) responded at 12:15 a.m. on April 18 to Troon Court in Hamilton Township, N.J. for a report of a structure fire.

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