Camden Fire Department - 60 South 24th Street

This page and the other pages in this series are the successors to the series of web-page about the Camden Fire Department called Camden Fire Department: The Fires of the Summer of 2011. On this and other pages in the series you will find pictures and information regarding different events and aspects of the fire service in Camden, New Jersey.

At approximately 1:30 AM, in the early morning hours of December 23, 2011 a fire was reported in a home being utilized by criminal trespassers at 60 South 24th Street, a two-story middle of the row building in East Camden. Companies arrived with heavy fire showing. EMS transported one victim rescued from the dwelling, and two other victims were also transported for treatment of smoke inhalation. Crews had heavy fire conditions in the original fire building which spread to the spreading to abandoned property at 58 South 24th Street. A second alarm was struck, and additional companies were requested above the second alarm. Multiple hose lines were placed in operation. Efforts to contain the blaze were hampered by the heavy rain which had been falling for a few hours prior to fire being reported. The fire was placed under control around the 2 hour mark, and hot spots were still being dealt with a few hours later. The adjacent dwelling at 58 South 24th Street was badly damaged, and an occupied home at 62 South 24th Street was also damaged, its residents forced to stay elsewhere during the Christmas holiday.

There had been a fire in house on the next block during the summer, and I had shot pictures of all properties on this block in August. Ted Aurig was on scene and took some pictures of the blaze, more photos that he took can be seen here. I took pictures of the properties several hours after the blaze had been contained.

As with the web page covering other Camden Fire Department events, if you can identify anyone that I've missed, please e-mail me. (I'm terrible at at names and faces).

Phil Cohen
December 27, 2011

Camden Courier-Post - 11:56 PM - December 23, 2011

Fire sickens 2 children

CAMDEN — A Camden family is homeless after a two-alarm fire that broke out in a vacant city home early Friday morning spread to the family’s rowhome.

Two children inside the home, a 2-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl, were treated at Cooper University Hospital for smoke inhalation and were later released.

The Camden County chapter of the Red Cross is now assisting eight residents displaced from the home, according to Camy Trinidad, executive director of the chapter.

The fire was reported around 1:30 a.m. in the basement of an abandoned home in the 100 block of South 24th Street and then spread to the family’s adjoining home.

Trinidad said the two children, four other adults and an elderly couple living in the home were put up in a hotel Thursday night and will remain there until Tuesday.

Camden fire officials could not be reached for further details on Friday.

Trinidad said the Red Cross is also supporting a Haddon Township family whose East Holly Avenue home was heavily damaged on Saturday. The family’s three girls, ages 3, 5, and 7 were among those displaced.