Neighbor Saves Resident After Fire Breaks Out in Trailer

A homeowner was not injured in a fire that broke out in her trailer on 23rd Street Monday night thanks to a quick-thinking neighbor. 

Linda Scannella said she was asleep when the fire broke out.

“I don’t know what happened,” Scannella said. “I would have slept through the whole thing but my neighbor knocked on my door when he saw smoke.”

Tom Villani knocked on the door and woke Scanella up. Villani’s wife Betty called 9-1-1.

The fire broke out along the trailer’s back wall, Fire Company No. 2 Chief John Gabriel said.

Gabriel said that the cause of the fire “appeared to be electrical." He said the exact cause of the blaze was “still being investigated” by a township fire inspector.

Fire Companies 1 and 2 responded to the incident.