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Mother, Son Killed In South Jersey Apartment Fire: Police

A mother and her son were killed in a fire at an apartment complex in Burlington Township, authorities said.

Burlington Township Police Department

Burlington Township Police Department

Photo Credit: Facebook/ Burlington Township PD

Police saw heavy smoke coming from an apartment at Northgate Village Apartments when they were called at 3 a.m., Thursday, Aug. 24, said Lt. Arthur Gittens, a Burlington Township police spokesman.

Firefighters arrived and pulled a man and a woman from the apartment as they worked to extinguish the fire. 

Emergency workers attempted to revive the pair with CPR, but Sandra Stevenson, 62, and Eric Stevenson, 28, were pronounced dead at the scene, the spokesman said.

No one else was in the apartment, Gittens said.

The fire was contained to the one apartment.

The cause and origin of the fire remain under investigation.

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