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Ott's Greentop Inn

Monday, February 25, 2013

Community Rallies Around Heights Explosion Victims

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…

Haddon Heights Explosion Victim Gets Help From Coworkers

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 …

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