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9 Boys Injured, Three Seriously, In South Blooming Grove Camp Dorm Fire 9 Boys Injured, Three Seriously, In South Blooming Grove Camp Dorm Fire
9 Boys Injured, Three Seriously, In South Blooming Grove Camp Dorm Fire UPDATE: Nine teenage boys were injured in an Orange County camp dormitory explosion and fire just after midnight Friday in South Blooming Grove, authorities reported. All were from Brooklyn, they said. Three were seriously injured and the others sustained minor injuries, fire officials said.  The Cromwell Hill bungalow was fully engulfed in flames, according to reports.  A medical chopper was used to transport some of the victims to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla.  Monroe, Washingtonville, Chester, Woodbury and Kyrias Joel were among the responding companies. Orange and Rockland…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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UPDATE: Gas-Fed Deck Fire Destroys Wayne Home UPDATE: Gas-Fed Deck Fire Destroys Wayne Home
Update: Gas-Fed Deck Fire Destroys Wayne Home WAYNE, N.J. -- Propane fed a raging fire that consumed a Wayne house Friday, causing several small explosions and drawing dozens of firefighters. No injuries were reported. The noontime blaze broke out on a rear deck (see photo above) before racing through the MacDonald Drive home, occupied by a man and his daughter, responders at the scene said.  Firefighters were forced out as flames engulfed the two-story home, they said. It took three hours to bring it under control. A PSE&G crew was summoned to kill live wires that had fallen.

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by Jerry DeMarco