New Jersey Woman Found Dead in Fire; Neighbor Hospitalized Amid Heroic Rescue
I woke up to the kind of news that makes you stop mid-scroll—a woman died in a house fire just a few miles from where I grew up. It wasn’t a storm or a crime scene. Just a regular night, a quiet street, and a home that went up in flames before anyone could stop it.
The fire started around 1:40 a.m. on Kempshall Terrace in Fanwood, Union County. That’s when firefighters got the call: someone was trapped inside. Crews got there in under five minutes, and they managed to bring the fire under control in about 20 minutes.
But the damage had already been done…