{"id":1917,"date":"2018-04-25T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T16:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2018-04-25T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T16:02:37","slug":"watch-car-fire-breaks-out-during-toms-river-mans-drive-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/04\/watch-car-fire-breaks-out-during-toms-river-mans-drive-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Car Fire Breaks Out During Toms River Man&#8217;s Drive to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"[videopress GW23uI6A]\n<p>A Toms River man quickly escaped from his vehicle after he noticed smoke coming from the engine compartment Monday morning. Soon after, the entire car was engulfed in flames, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old driver was on his way to the township\u2019s Loews store for work when he saw the smoke, and immediately pulled into the nearest parking lot \u2013 a PNC Bank branch at 1329 Hooper Avenue. Police and fire units arrived at 7:56 a.m. to find the 1995 Mercedes-Benz fully engulfed, according to police spokesman Ralph Stocco.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters successfully put out the fire and there were no injuries reported, Stocco said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/04\/watch-car-fire-breaks-out-during-toms-river-mans-drive-to-work\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Toms River man quickly escaped from his vehicle after he noticed smoke coming from the engine compartment Monday morning. Soon after, the entire car was engulfed in flames, police said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[608,11],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-car-fire","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-25-at-12.01.06-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}