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Wash. Twp. Police Officer Smells Smoke, Evacuates Units Before Townhouse Fire Spreads
More damage from a townhouse fire may have been done had a nearby police officer not smelled smoke. Officer Adam Feichter was completing an investigation with Cpl. Kirk Griffin last Saturday, when he noticed smoke coming from one of the Hasting Square Townhouses around 4:30 p.m., Police Lt. Douglas Compton said. The officers made sure no one was home before evacuating the adjacent units, as the Washington Township Fire Department knocked out the blaze with help from mutual aid companies, Compton said. "The cause of the fire does not appear to be suspicious in nature and the townh…
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Morris County Lieutenant Pulls Over Burning Van To Save Unsuspecting Driver, Passenger
A keen-eyed Washington Township police lieutenant saved two people from danger when he noticed that the van they were riding in was on fire. Lt. Douglas Compton was stopped at East Springtown Road and Schooleys Mountain Road when he spotted the 2009 GMC work van -- its undercarriage fully engulfed in flames, he said in a news release. Compton flashed his emergency lights and horn to get the attention of the driver and passenger, bringing the vehicle to a stop on West Springtown Road, he said. Neither the driver nor the passenger knew their van was on fire and walked away from the scen…