Monday, February 25, 2013
Supporters have three ways and counting to help the people harmed by the White Horse Pike apartment explosion.
Local efforts to help those hurt and displaced by the Feb. 23 Haddon Heights apartment explosion continue to take shape. The explosion, thought to be caused by a natural gas leak, flattened a Victorian home transformed into five apartments. One woman, Raquel Nunn, was severely burned and remains hospitalized from her injuries. Another woman suffered more minor injuries, and all residents were left homeless. The only thing standing after the powerful explosion, felt several towns away, was a section of wall. Haddon Heights Good Neighbors, a registered nonprofit that bills itself as “a group of neighbors helping neighbors,” is taking donations for all of the apartment building’s residents who were displaced in the explosion. Checks should be…
Raquel Nunn suffered second- and third-degree burns over half her body. She has no health insurance. Her friends at Ott's Greentop Inn in Berlin are coordinating some help.
California native Raquel Nunn moved to Haddon Heights only a few months ago, said her friend and coworker, Elizabeth Croker. Nunn will be spending at least twice that amount of time in the hospital, as the young woman heals from the second- and third-degree burns that now cover nearly half her body, Croker said. Nunn has no health insurance. Everything she owned was destroyed in the explosion that leveled the White Horse Pike apartment she rented, Croker said. "She doesn’t even have a toothbrush; she doesn’t even have anywhere to go home to," Croker said. The severity of Nunn's injuries are such that "we’re not sure if she can actually wear clothes [right now]," she said. So Croker, a Collingswood resident and coworker of Nunn at Ott's …
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Two people were sent to a nearby hospital, at least one of whom was badly burned. Preliminary reports blame a natural gas leak.
In his decades-long firefighting career, Haddon Heights Mayor Edward S. Forte Jr. said the home that exploded Saturday afternoon is among the biggest incidents he can recall. "This is pretty big for us," Forte told Patch from the scene of the incident that sent at least two people to the hospital. One woman was "burned pretty bad," said Haddon Heights Public Safety Director Jack Merryfield. By about 5 p.m. Saturday, authorities had been working to control the fire for about 90 minutes. Residents from several neighboring towns poured into side streets near the White Horse Pike and Green Street in four directions. Emergency crews from Mt. Ephraim to Bellmawr were on the scene, diverting traffic along the thoroughfare from Station Avenue to …
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Jaconda Bell
1:06 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
thanks for the information more ›