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Two dead in a Camden County crash involving fire department vehicle

The fire truck was responding to a call when it collided with a civilian vehicle. The two people in the car died at the scene.

Emergency personnel respond to a motor vehicle collision in Magnolia, N.J. on Wednesday morning. Two people died at the scene and two firefighters were transported to the hospital after a Lawnside Fire Department truck and a car (covered with a tarp) collided at Warwick Road. and White Horse Pike.
Emergency personnel respond to a motor vehicle collision in Magnolia, N.J. on Wednesday morning. Two people died at the scene and two firefighters were transported to the hospital after a Lawnside Fire Department truck and a car (covered with a tarp) collided at Warwick Road. and White Horse Pike.Read more

A crash involving a fire department truck and one civilian vehicle at a busy Camden County intersection left two dead Wednesday morning and two others with minor injuries.

The collision took place on Warwick Road and North White Horse Pike, an intersection in the borough of Magnolia, according to Camden County spokesperson Dan Keashen. The initial calls reporting the crash came in shortly before 10 a.m., he said.

The two people in the car died at the scene, according to the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office.

The truck belonged to the Lawnside Fire Department. The three firefighters on board were responding to a call at the time of the crash, according to the prosecutor’s office.

Two of the firefighters experienced minor injuries, according to Keashen, and were transported to Jefferson Stratford Hospital.

The Crash Response Investigation Team, part of the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office, is investigating.