Since December, the Surf City Volunteer Fire Co and EMS has operated from Ship Bottom and Harvey Cedars following a fire at its firehouse. For the near future, they will continue to do the same as the insurance process lingers.
“I am trying to move it along as quickly as can be done,” Peter Hartney, a borough councilman and president of the fire company, told a packed house at the Feb. 8 Surf City Borough Council meeting. “I keep telling them we need to be up and running by May.
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