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Fire at 1227 North 28th Street
Camden Fire Department response to a fire at 1227 North 28th Street in Cramer Hill on September 19, 2011.
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Camden Fire Department Reunion Dinner, September 2011
The third annual Camden Fire Department reunion dinner, held September 15, 2011 at The PUB on the Airport Circle in Pennsauken, organized by Ron Angemi.
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Firefighter Injured in Camden Blaze
A Camden City firefighter was hospitalized for heat-related issues after a one-alarm fire gutted a vacant former beauty salon at 940 Haddon Avenue on July 29, 2011.
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Fire at 940 Haddon Avenue
On July 29, 2011, arsonists set fire to a vacant former nail salon at 940 Haddon Avenue in Camden's Parkside section. The building was gutted; one firefighter, Dom Barrett, was treated for heat-related issues amid 90-plus-degree temperatures.
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Camden NJ Fire Fighters Battle Smoky 2-Alarm Blaze
Shortly after 1:00 PM on December 13, 2007 a police car on patrol spotted heavy smoke coming from a row of vacant dwellings in the 600 block of Bailey Street in the North Camden section of the city.
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Anthony Douglas Moffa Obituary
Obituary of Anthony Douglas Moffa of Voorhees, a 38-year veteran of the Camden Fire Department who rose from firefighter to battalion chief. He died October 23, 2007 at age 68.
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Elderly Couple Die After Fire Hits Camden Home
Levota Macklin, 85, and her husband William Macklin, 84, died after a fire struck their two-story home in the 1300 block of Everett Street; their stepson Lawrence Thomas escaped through a bathroom window. Camden Courier-Post, October 11, 2007.
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4 Homeless After Camco Blaze
An electrical fire damaged a second-floor apartment at 139 North 36th Street, displacing a family of four. Camden firefighters contained the blaze to the front bedroom in 14 minutes; no injuries were reported. Working smoke detectors alerted occupants in time.
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John Paul Gryckiewicz
Death notice for John Paul Gryckiewicz, 87, formerly of Camden, who died June 4, 2006 in New Port Richey, Florida; a retired Camden fire captain of 40 years and a WWII Navy veteran of the USS South Dakota.
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Leonard E. Oshushek (Obituary)
The March 2006 Camden Courier-Post obituary of Leonard Edward Oshushek (1918–2006) of Franklinville, a retired acting Chief of the Camden Fire Department after 32 years of service, who died at age 87 on March 17, 2006, in Vineland.
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2419 Arnold Street — April 20, 2005
A reported dwelling fire with an infant trapped was dispatched at 0042 hours on April 20, 2005, at 2419 Arnold Street. Crews searched the structure with negative results and contained the fire to one unit.
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Coffman, Richard G.
Death notice for Richard G. Coffman of Cherry Hill, formerly of Westmont, a Camden firefighter of 25 years, published in the Camden Courier-Post on July 14, 2004.
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Camden Fire Destroys Home
A three-alarm fire destroyed a vacant three-story home at 88 Dudley Street and damaged the houses at 84 and 90 Dudley Street; no injuries were reported. Camden Courier-Post, January 8, 2004.
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Henry J. Keating Sr.
Obituary of Henry J. Keating Sr., formerly of Cape May and Camden, age 82, a Camden City fireman for 25 years and member of the Knights of Columbus Nativity Council #2976, Lindenwold. Camden Courier-Post, November 28, 2002.
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Fire Guts 5 Vacant Camden Homes
A three-alarm arson fire destroyed five vacant rowhomes in the 700 block of Morgan Boulevard in August 1995; one Camden firefighter was treated for electrical shock and released.
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50th Wedding Anniversary
John and Mary Gryckiewicz, formerly of Camden, marked their 50th wedding anniversary in August 1992 with a party at the Innisbrook Country Club in Tarpon Springs, Florida, hosted by their six children.
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Obituary of George W. Meriwether
Obituary of George W. Meriwether of Camden, a Camden firefighter, who died June 3, 1992 at age 66; interment at Harleigh Cemetery.
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Retirement Letter from Chief John J. Mogck Jr.
On his retirement, Chief John J. Mogck Jr. wrote a farewell letter to the Camden Fire Department, retiring alongside Captains John DiMaggio, Robert Olesiewicz and Anthony Orme and firefighters Philip MacDonald and William Stone after 39 years in the 1st Battalion.
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Seven People Killed, 2 Injured in Camden Row House Blaze
An early morning fire engulfed a rowhouse at 900 North 28th Street on April 20, 1987, killing seven people including four young children and leaving another child in critical condition. Camden County Prosecutor Samuel Asbell blamed careless smoking; city fire officials disagreed with that finding.
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Friends Will Honor Veteran Firefighter
On the eve of his March 1980 retirement dinner, Camden fire captain John P. Gryckiewicz looked back on 40 years with the department — the rescues, the Garden State Race Track fire, 84-hour weeks and $60 paychecks, and a city he still loved.
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Camden Honors Heroics of Firemen
Three Camden firefighters were cited for rescuing an 8-month-old girl from a burning bedroom at 1482 Kaighns Avenue; firefighter Michael Galasso revived the infant with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
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Bar patrons mourn murdered buddies
Regulars at The Tavern, a North Sixth Street bar, mourned Benjamin Shablack and John Barrett, two retired roommates bound, gagged, and left to die in a fire set in their North Camden rowhouse on Bailey Street. Fire Marshal Harold Pike found the fire was deliberately set in four locations.
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Cigarettes or heater sparked fire
Authorities said a cigarette or portable heater started the fire that killed five residents of an unlicensed boarding home for the elderly in Camden in November 1977; Fire Marshal Harold Pike said the building lacked a fire escape, smoke alarm and sprinkler system.
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Services Are Planned for Sgt. Wesley Faust
Funeral arrangements for Sgt. Wesley Faust of the New Hanover Township police, a Camden native, Camden High School class of 1940 and ten-year Camden fireman.
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Wesley Faust, Ex-Fireman
Camden Courier-Post obituary for A. Wesley Faust, a former Camden City fireman who died of an apparent heart attack while working a three-car accident as a New Hanover Township, Pa. police sergeant.
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Fire Rescue at 1440 Sheridan Street
Fire Watch commended firefighters of Engines 7 and 8 for rescuing a trapped, unconscious woman from a fire at 1440 Sheridan Street on March 27, 1977, and Fr. Denny Dowhy of Ladder Co. 2 for saving the life of a man's best friend.
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From the Rule Book
A page from the Spring 1977 Fire Watch Magazine reprinting excerpts of Camden Fire Department General Order #76-1 on fire radio communications procedures, with an "Our Patrons" advertisement grid including Euler's Floor Coverings at 1801 Haddon Avenue.
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Our Patrons
An "Our Patrons" page of fifteen advertisements from the Spring 1977 Fire Watch Magazine, including Terry's Famous Pizza Box at 200 S. 27th St. at Benson St., Bruno's Restaurant, Crystal 1 Hr. Cleaners and the Trent Bar & Liquors.
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Fire Watch: In This Issue
The opening page of the inaugural issue of Fire Watch (Vol. 1 No. 1, Spring 1977), the magazine published by and for Camden firefighters, with its table of contents, a note on the cover photo of the 6 June 1976 Harris Terminal Complex fire at Mt. Ephraim Avenue and Fairview Street, and the department, union and staff directories.
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Devlin
Death notice for Charles H. Devlin, 64, of 1675 Collings Road, Fairview, a retired Camden city fireman and member of the Hot Stovers Baseball Club, with funeral arrangements at the Myrtetus Funeral Home.
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Fatal Fire Truck Crash Is Blamed on Their Sirens
Camden Courier-Post, August 18, 1975. Engines One and Eight collided at 6th and Pine Streets, killing Wilkins Tisdale and injuring 14, including Albert Collum, captain of Engine One. A fire official theorised the drivers could not hear each other over their own sirens.
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The Grim Shadow of Death Stalks Firemen’s Family
Martin DiCarlo's Camden Courier-Post column on the Iannelli family: Camden firemen Frank Iannelli and his sons Leonard and Carmen all died of heart attacks on the job, in 1942, 1964 and 1975.
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Fire Rips E. Camden Home, Leaving 4 Youngsters Dead
Four children of Mrs. Geraldine Binder died in a 20-minute fire at 433 Garden Avenue in East Camden; Battalion Chief Thomas Blair said all four appeared to have died of smoke inhalation and that the blaze likely started near the living room couch.
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Humphries
Death notice for David W. Humphries of 113 South 35th Street, a member of the Camden Fire Department for 26 years, who died April 19, 1974; interment at Arlington Cemetery.
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A. C. Batten Services Set For Friday
Obituary of Capt. Arthur C. Batten of 1132 North 22nd Street, retired Acting Battalion Chief of the Camden Fire Department and former captain of the department's Rescue Squad, who died at Cooper Hospital on April 18, 1972 after 42 years of service.
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5 Juveniles Arrested in Plant Blaze
Five North Camden boys aged 11 to 14 were arrested after a general-alarm fire at the vacant former John R. Evans Co. leather tanning plant at Second and Erie Streets in December 1971; the building's owner put his loss at $100,000 to $200,000, according to Fire Marshal Harold Pike.
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Fireman Injured as Plant Burns
Camden Courier-Post, December 20, 1971: A Camden fireman was injured when his ladder ripped from its base at a general-alarm fire that destroyed the empty John R. Evans leather tanning plant in North Camden.
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Fire Death Of Woman Is Probed
Fire Marshal Harold Pike enlisted the Camden detective bureau to investigate the death of Mrs. Elizabeth McLeish, 37, found burned to death in her Woodland Avenue home in November 1971.
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United Mission Rescue Corps
A Camden Courier-Post report of August 6, 1971 on the United Mission Rescue Corps, founded by Camden resident Lewis T. Lewis in July 1969, which had raised more than $20,000 but spent only about 15 per cent of it on disaster victims, and which used $7,000 of an inheritance to buy an office building at 2411 Federal Street.
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Blaze Damages Werner Home
A fire, apparently started by a television set, swept the living room of the home of Francis Werner, an investigator in the Camden County prosecutor's office, at 822 North 30th Street. Battalion Chief John Giuliano said the blaze was reported at 8:15 a.m. and was under control within minutes.
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Mailahn
Death notice for Camden fireman Harry Mailahn, 44, of 2924 Royden Street, who died February 1, 1971, listing his survivors and funeral arrangements.
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Harry Mailahn, City Fireman, Rites Friday
Funeral services for Harry Mailahn, 44, a Camden fireman for 21 years, were set for Friday at the Harry Leonard Funeral Home, with burial in New Camden Cemetery.
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825 Fern Street Fire
Camden Courier-Post, April 4, 1970. Captain Al Collum of Engine Company 1 carries the body of a child from a row house fire at 825 Fern Street that claimed two young victims.
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4 Firemen Suspended By Melleby
Public Safety Director Harold Melleby suspended four veteran Camden firemen over a July 21 fight at Engine Company 9, 27th and Federal Streets, including acting captain John Kolessar and Deputy Chief Frank Deal. Camden Courier-Post, October 14, 1969.
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Six Begin Fire 'Basic'
Six Camden men — Thomas S. Watson Jr., Lloyd W. Henshall, Lloyd G. Birdsong, Leon J. Johnson, Richard P. Williams and Curtis J. Britt — began basic training on January 3, 1969, bringing the Camden Fire Department to full complement.
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Twelve Sworn In As City Firemen
Twelve men were sworn in to implement the second phase of a 42-hour work week for Camden city firemen, administered the oath by Fire Chief Edward V. Michalak. Three followed their fathers into public service, among them William H. Huelas, son of Captain John D. Huelas.
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Family of Six Escapes Fire
Mrs. Girlene Garrett and her six children escaped a two-alarm fire that gutted their home at 832 North 3rd Street in August 1968; Acting Battalion Chief John Gryckiewicz and Hoseman Edmund Gorczynski were treated at Cooper Hospital for burns.
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Fire at 917 North 30th Street
A fire broke out in the first-floor living room of 917 North 30th Street, Camden, causing extensive damage. Acting Battalion Chief Leonard Oshushek said the blaze appeared to have been caused by careless smoking. Owner Matthew Mengle arrived home to find firemen fighting the fire.
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Police, Fire Tests Take Heavy Toll
Camden Courier-Post coverage of the June 1968 Civil Service results for the Camden fire captain and patrolman examinations, listing every candidate who passed — including Anthony D. Moffa of 23 Leonard Avenue, who scored 73.3 on the fire captain's test.
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Widow Routed by Blaze
Mrs. Edith McDevitt, a widow living at 916 Front Street, was routed from her home when fire broke out in her upstairs bedroom for the second time within six hours; two firemen were overcome by smoke.