If things were not hard enough currently, now one Ocean County family has lost everything following a house fire on Innsbruck Drive in Holiday City Berkeley.
The residents of a Killington Road residence in the Silver Ridge retirement community in Berkeley Township were able to exit safety and without injury as their home caught fire on Monday night.
The fire that ravaged a Howell Township house Wednesday night might have been triggered by a lit cigarette butt in the garage, according to investigators who deemed the blaze not suspicious in preliminary findings.
A lit cigarette that ignited a mattress appears to be the cause of a Monday night fire that left extensive damage in a Brick Township house, and that cost a pet dog its life.