Racial bias blamed for Manitou Park Fire company's lack of a tanker truck
Asbury Park Press 31 Oct 1991
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House Burning spoils dinner, 1906
New Jersey Courier Nov 1 1906 I think dinner may not be the only thing spoiled. the furniture is worth almost as much as the entire house.
Pine Barrens Fire, 1936
Pine Barrens Fire of 1936 As reported in the pages of the New Jersey Mirror , 27 May 1936 Five Killed, Many Injured in Greatest Forest Fires in the History of Two Counties / More Than 20,000 Acres Involved in Four-Day Conflagration in the Area from Chatsworth to Tuckerton and Manahawkin--2,000 Men Fought Fire / Men Were Trapped While Fighting In one of the worst forest fires in the history of Burlington and Ocean counties, the past four days, burning over more than 20,000 acres, five men lost their lives and many others were injured. The area involved includes the section from Chatsworth to Tuckerton. There also were fires east of Brown's Mills. Colonel Leonidas J. Coyle, state fire warden, reported last night that the fire was under control and practically extinguished, when a change of wind turned the flames back over the area already burned over. The dead are: Edward F. Sullivan, 19, of New Brunswick. Kingsley White, 38, of Whitesville. Stanley Carr, 23, of Farmingdale. John
The great Ocean County fire of 1930
Ocean County Fire of 1930 As reported in the pages of the New Jersey Courier , 9 May 1930 FIERCE FIRES RAGE FOUR DAYS DESTROY FIFTY OR MORE HOMES Tuckerton Lost One House in Four Days Tuckerton, May 8--For a period of three days this town experienced the worst series of forest fires ever recorded here. Beginning with Saturday afternoon and still raging on Wednesday night. Every able bodied man and even school boys were fighting fires. There were companies here from Atlantic City, Ocean City, Pomona, Beach Haven, West Creek, Manahawkin, Beach- Arlington and other places. During the time a thousand or more men have been at work. The first fire started on Saturday afternoon at Tuckerton Manors, a new development on North Green street road, and quickly spread through the Wood street area, but above the houses, burned out to the New York road, endangering the Marine Radio Station, the home of James Cullen , his son's and Joseph Petzak 's. These places were saved only after a ha
