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The Toms River driver had just parked in the North Midland Avenue UPS lot around 2 p.m. when another employee alerted him to heavy smoke coming from the 1998 Jeep Cherokee’s engine compartment, Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler said.
“Seeing that his car was sandwiched between other cars in the lot, the employee quickly entered the smoking vehicle and backed it out of the spot it was in,” Kugler said. “He quickly got out before it became engulfed.”
Three nearby vehicles sustained less serious damage, he said, adding that Saddle Brook firefighters doused the blaze.
Although the driver’s actions “most definitely saved the other cars from the same fate as his,” the chief said “it is not recommended due to the personal danger.”
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