Category: Government
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Camden Fire Dept – Garage Fire on Warnock Place
December 15, 2013 Police were already on scene, Squad 7 was the first fire unit to arrive. There was a whole lot of smoke from this detached garage on Warnock Place, an old more or less abandoned street that runs west from South 8th Street between Sycamore Street and Kaighn Avenue. A water supply was…
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Fairview Alarm Activation
December 15, 2013 This page and the other pages in this series are the successors to the series of web-page about the Camden Fire Department. On this and other pages in the series you will find pictures and information regarding different events and aspects of the fire service in Camden, New Jersey. I had stopped…
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Camden Fire Department – Boats and Vapors
For a few years on Thanksgiving and Christmas, Phil Cohen had been dropping off a dozen donuts at each of the firehouses in Camden…; usually in the evening. This day, November 28, 2013, was a little different and “the donut run” was done at mid-day. A quiet day for the most part…;
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Camden Fire Department – 811 S. 5th Street
January 1, 2012 The first fire of 2012 in Camden came before noon, when an abandoned dwelling at 811 Pine Street was set ablaze. Camden firefighter Gabriel Angemi put it in a few understated words. “Took about 12 hours for Camden Fire Department to get our first job of the new year. Aggressive work by…
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Camden Fire Department – Multi-Department Drill
2012-11-18 Fire, Rescue, and Safety Operations On November 18, 2012, multiple fire departments from Camden County, New Jersey, came together to conduct a drill in Haddon Township. The objective of the drill was to simulate rescue operations in the event of a fire on one of the PATCO commuter trains, specifically on an elevated section…
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Camden Fire Department – Fire at 616 Kaighn Avenue
April 28, 2012 – 3 Alarm Fire The third alarm was sounded around the 44-minute mark with Gloucester City 51 and Bellmawr 33 being called. Units from Collingswood, Cherry Hill, Oaklyn, and Westmont also joined. The fire at vacant 616 Kaighn Avenue spread to the vacant industrial property at 615-629 Liberty Street. There were no…