Dinner left unattended on a stove is blamed with sparking a fire in a Manchester home on Buckingham Drive Monday night that sent a female resident and two Township police officers to the hospital for smoke inhalation, according to authorities.
Investigators probing last week's fire in Berkeley Township that incinerated a house and killed the occupant tentatively call it accidental - and haven't eliminated careless smoking as the possible cause.
Two occupants of a downtown Toms River home huddled in the cold this morning, watching flames and smoke consume their dwelling as a battery of firefighters struggled in sub-freezing temperatures.