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Long Valley Animal Hospital Sets Up Memorial For Slain Vet With 'Rockstar Smile'
A memorial has been set up outside a New Jersey animal hospital for Lauren Semanchik, a veterinarian who was fatally shot in a double murder-suicide in Washington Township over the weekend. Semanchik, 33, was killed along with her new boyfriend, 29-year-old firefighter Tyler Webb, by her ex-boyfriend Ricardo Santos, a New Jersey State Police trooper, authorities said. Santos then turned the gun on himself in his vehicle in Johnson Park in Piscataway, officials confirmed. ALSO SEE: NJ Trooper Followed Ex From Work, Lurked In Woods Before Double Murder Suicide: Prosecutor Semanchik work…
Franklin Township, NJ
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Solar Paneled Roof Catches Fire In Somerset County, Police Say
Firefighters from multiple companies across Somerset County knocked down flames that erupted on the roof of a commercial building in Franklin Township Wednesday evening, July 10, officials said. Franklin police said flames erupted on the solar paneled roof of a School House Road building just before 5:10 p.m. Arriving units observed heavy smoke and flames from the roof of the commercial building. Today at 16:11 the South Bound Brook Fire Department and Bound Brook Fire Department were dispatched to canal road for a... Posted by South Bound Brook Fire Department on Wednesday, J…
West Milford, NJ
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Homeowner Charged With Arson, Aggravated Assault In Destructive Fire Overlooking Greenwood Lake
UPDATE: A West Milford man was charged with conducting an illegal backyard burn that ignited a rapidly-spreading weekend blaze that sent two firefighters to the hospital while destroying one home and damaging two others on a hill overlooking Greenwood Lake. Keith Scherer, 45, of Hewitt, was burning wood and debris in a fire pit behind his Lakeside Road home when the brush caught fire and flames spread up the hill in the Hewitt section of West Milford, a little over a half-mile from the New York State border, shortly before 12:30 p.m., March 18, responders had told Daily Voice. Scherer was …
North Hunterdon, NJ
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Brush Fire Closes Hiking Trails On Mt. Tammany Months After 70-Acre Blaze
Trails on Mount Tammany were closed Monday after a brush fire broke out Sunday. In February, a 70-acre wildfire burned for days across the New Jersey side of the Delaware Water Gap. Sunday's fire was 90 percent under control as of 4 p.m. that day, park officials said. The blaze had burned across one acre as of 2:30 p.m., and was located at the intersection of the Red Dot and Blue-blazed trails. Eleven firefighters from the NPS and the NJ State Forest Fire Service responded, and a helicopter was placed on standby with a bucket ready. Parking lots of Worthington State Forest were closed Sa…
