JOSEPH ARENSBERG was in Camden, New Jersey. His grandfather, Adolph "Jake" Arensberg, was a founding member of the Cramer Hill Boys Club. Joseph Arensberg joined the Camden Fire Department in January of 1963. The following November, his wife Patricia bore a son, Douglas. 

The Arensberg family had moved from Camden by 1977 to Maple Shade, New Jersey. Sadly, Douglas Arensberg, who worked for the Camden Fire Department in the Apparatus Shop on Wright Avenue, passed away on January 22, 1996.