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When Felicia Simmons organized what became the largest George Floyd rally at the Jersey Shore last June, she tasked each speaker. “I’m not going to tell you what to say,” she told them, but you must offer the demonstrators at least one tangible thing they can do: register to vote, learn the names of their local officials, join a community group.
“When you stand with somebody who is in the midst of those emotional places, you can either pour hate into them and unleash something ugly,” Simmons said in an interview. “Or you can pour something into it that is mindful and powerful. That directs them towards something. That s what leaders do, right? Not just get people out there in the streets to cry.”
Firefighter who had medical emergency at 167-acre blaze released from hospital
Updated 11:01 PM;
Over one month after going into cardiac arrest while battling a forest fire that burned through 167 acres in Ocean County, Brian Sauers is going home.
Sauers, the chief of the East Dover Fire Company District in Toms River, was released from Ocean Medical Center in Brick on Friday, according to videos and photos provided to NJ Advance Media. The chief was cheered on by dozens of onlookers who gathered to celebrate his release, the media shows.
He suffered a medical emergency on March 14 as the blaze burned through sections of woods in Lakewood and Jackson and was rushed to the hospital, where he remained in critical condition for a few days until his condition was upgraded to stable, authorities said.
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House fire on Lehigh Boulevard claims life of Jackson resident
House fire on Lehigh Boulevard claims life of Jackson resident ×
JACKSON – A resident of Jackson died in a house fire the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office has determined was accidental in nature.
On April 1 at 8:45 p.m., Jackson police officers and firefighters were dispatched to a structure fire at a home on Lehigh Boulevard in a residential development off West County Line Road in the vicinity of Brewers Bridge Road.
The first responders were informed the fire involved people trapped in the home, according to a press release from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office
Kerosene heater blamed for fire that killed 82-year-old woman, authorities say
Updated 10:59 AM;
A house fire in Ocean County that killed an 82-year-old woman and left another hurt Thursday was apparently caused by a kerosene heater and has been ruled accidental, authorities said Saturday.
A second person suffered minor injuries after jumping from the second floor of the home to escape the flames, officials said.
The investigation “determined that the fire was caused by a kerosene heater being located too close in proximity to a combustible liquid,” Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said in a statement.
The Ocean County Medical Examiner determined Elyea died of smoke inhalation, Billhimer said.