Police Continue To Investigate Suspicious Fire

(Photo courtesy of The Lacey Reporter/Gavin Rozzi)

LACEY – Two older vehicles caught fire at a Bamber Lake residence. Police are investigating.

Around 9:20 a.m. April 12, Lacey Township Police Officer Darrell Nick responded to the Phillip’s Road residence, where those vehicles, located at the rear of the property, were engulfed in flames.

The Forked River Fire Department extinguished the fire.

Authorities said due to the fire’s suspicious nature, the police department’s detective bureau along with the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, Ocean County Sheriff’s Department CSI, and Ocean County Fire Marshal were called in to assist.

A cause has yet to be determined.