Crime & Safety
Fire At Wall House Kills Couple: Prosecutor (UPDATE)
The fire remains under investigation, the prosecutor's office said.
WALL, NJ — A tragic Wall Township fire has claimed two lives, after the wife succumbed to her injuries Tuesday morning, the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office said.
Joan Maino, 86, died in the hospital Tuesday, said Christopher Swendeman of the prosecutor's office. She suffered extensive injuries in the fire that killed her husband, Nicholas Maino, 92.
The fire at the Atlantic Avenue home started around 9 p.m. Monday, and scanner reports indicated two people were trapped in the house. Firefighters were able to remove them from the burning house but Nicholas Maino did not survive.
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The fire remains under investigation.
Monmouth - Wall - 3008 Atlantic Ave - 2nd Alarm - Working structure fire with 2 victims trapped. Victims located working on extricating.
— CentralJerseyFire (@CJFireBuffs) January 29, 2019
U/D - Monmouth - Wall - 3008 Atlantic Ave - 2nd Alarm - Both victims removed at this time
— CentralJerseyFire (@CJFireBuffs) January 29, 2019
Monday night's fire was the third house fire in Wall in 2019. A fire on Jan. 4 started when a truck struck a house, according to a Coast Star report. No one was injured but a woman and her dog were left homeless. Four days later, a woman and her children were left homeless when their home caught fire.
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