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January 9, 2021 – January 15, 2021
‘ONE OF THE BIGGEST WE’VE EVER HAD’ Photo By David Hernandez
Police Probe Yet Another Vehicle Gunfire Incident in Pemberton Township By Douglas D. Melegari
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Three Alarm Fire Suspected of Starting in Dodge Viper Being Charged Destroys Two-Story Home, Five Cars; Causing $1.2 Million in Damage Three Firefighters Suffer Minor Injuries, Another Hospitalized After Heart Episode By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer
SHAMONG—A three-alarm dwelling fire in Shamong Township on Dec. 26 that Indian Mills Volunteer Fire Company Chief John Smith, a 48-year veteran of the agency, said was “probably one of the biggest fires we’ve ever had, and probably the biggest fire we didn’t have a chance to get out (before creating damage),” destroyed the two-story home on Twin Oaks Drive, ravaged five vehicles and displaced a family of seven. Three firefighters sustained minor injuries in the blaze, Smith said, while a fourth, who happens to be his cousin, suffered a heart
episode while helping to coordinate its massive response. The damage, according to the fire chief, has totaled at least $1.2 million. Following the fire, the community came together to raise more than $111,000 through GoFundMe to give to the affected family, with a local daycare also arranging a clothing donation drive for the occupants. “It (the house) was already gone before we got there,” Smith told this newspaper. “If we immediately put it out, it would have been totaled.” In fact, Smith said he called for mutual assistance while on the way to scene, after
observing a massive smoke column in the sky. “The whole house was fully involved in flames on the one end when I got there,” Smith said. “Then a gust of wind came along and the flames went right through the house and came out the second floor, on the opposite side of where the fire started. That gust of wind is when the fire blew right through the house.” “The end result”, the chief said, “wasn’t good”. “The home burned all the way down to the ground,” Smith said. “It was a total, total See BIGGEST/ Page 11
vehicle gunfire has occurred in Pemberton Township – this time on Dec. 15, 2020. The latest such shooting is believed to have played out in the vicinity of Phillips Avenue, located in the Browns Mills section 1/22/20 12:04 PM of Pemberton, according to Lt. Jay Watters, a spokesman for the Pemberton Township Police Department. Currently, there are no known injuries from the incident. Responding officers, Watters said, arrived in the 100 Block of Phillips Avenue around 8:30 p.m. and located “a scene in the street,” which consisted of empty shell casings from a firearm. “Witnesses in the area advised that an unknown subject in a dark colored sedan shot multiple rounds at an unknown white sedan that was in the area,” Watters said. “Both vehicles then departed the area in different directions.” Later in the evening, according to Watters, police located a white Mercedes Benz in the Oak Pines section of Pemberton, “which had a bullet hole located in the trunk area,” and it was determined that the vehicle “had been struck by the gunfire on Phillips Avenue.” The Pemberton Township Police Department is requesting of residents from Phillips Avenue, Garden Avenue and West Lakeshore Drive to provide them with any surveillance video that they may have from Dec. 15 from between 8:15 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. No arrests pertaining to the Dec. 15 shooting have been announced by Pemberton Police, as of press time. It follows a Nov. 3, 2020 incident in which a 27-year-old man was fatally shot around 4 a.m. in the Sunbury Village section of Pemberton, while riding inside a vehicle, in the 100 Block of Kinsley Road, as a front seat passenger. See GUNFIRE/ Page 12
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