Early in the morning on August 18, 2004 Cherry Hill Firefighters responded to a reported house fire in an affluent neighborhood with large homes. Several calls from neighbors reporting small explosions (later attributed to aerosol cans exploding) in the neighborhood earned this call a full response. The homeowner, alerted to the fire by the family dog, attempted to call 911 as his phone lines went dead.
First arriving units, Battalion Chief 1303 and Squrt 1331, reported heavy fire in Division A in the area of the garage. While accounting for all the occupants, they deployed one 2
