Raymond F. McClintock
RAYMOND FRANCIS McCLINTOCK was born in Camden on February 28, 1938 to Margaret F. McNeil and Raymond Priest. He was adopted and raised by Arthur and Margaret McClintock. A veteran of the United States Navy, he served as a reserve firefighter in the early 1960s, and was injured in January of 1964 while serving in that capacity. He worked in Camden’s Highway Department (later renamed Public Works) as early as 1962.
Raymond F. McClintock was appointed to the Camden Fire Department on March 3, 1974. Raymond McClintock and his wife Helen were living at 474 North 34th Street when he was appointed to the Fire Department. In 1979 he was appointed to the post of Assistant Director of the Public Works Department by Mayor Angelo Errichetti. He left city employ in 1981 when Mayor Errichetti resigned. He later reapplied for his position with public works, was turned down, and subsequently took a position as a heavy equipment operator with the Township of Cherry Hill.
Raymond F. McClintock spent his last years at Lake Alfred, Florida. He died on July 30, 2001.
Fire Pumper Crashes Into Camden Office
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Fire Pumper Crashes Into Camden Office
A fire engine crashed through the front of an automobile insurance office in Camden on Saturday, cracking the entire brick face of the three-story building and leaving it in danger of collapse.
All traffic was halted in the area of Broadway and Pine sts. in fear the rumble of buses and trucks would bring the building down. The fire engine was left inside the bulk glass front of the Basin & Basin Insurance Co. office for nearly three hours until city workers could shore up the building so the vehicle could be removed safely.
The apparatus, a pumper of Engine 1, 4th and Pine sts., was responding to a mattress fire at 434 S. 6th st. at 2:30 P.M. when it collided with an automobile.
Both vehicles mounted the curb at the southeast corner of the downtown intersection.
Mrs. Maria Gruber, 74, of 505 Pine st., who was walking by the building was brushed by the fire engine and knocked to the sidewalk, where she was showered with glass from the smashed window and door. She was admitted to West Jersey Hospital with fractures of the right ankle and lower right leg and cuts of the face and legs.
Fireman Isaac Muns, 36, of 717 State st., driver of the pumper, suffered a fractured right foot and leg cuts and was admitted to Cooper Hospital. Fireman George Dixon, 31, of 1554 Ormand ave., Camden, who was riding on the pumper, was treated at the same hospital for cuts of the right leg and right hand and then released.
Two young people in the automobile also were treated for injuries at Cooper Hospital. They were Charles Wilson, 24, of 407 Monmouth st., Gloucester City, N. J., and Janet Mayhew, 17, of 210 Mercer st., also of Gloucester City.
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Raymond McClintock, 25, of 530 Lester Terrace, Camden, a Camden Public Works Department employe, was treated at the Cooper Hospital for lacerations of the neck and left hand.
He was assisting in the placing of shoring to brace the building against collapse after the crash when struck by a piece of glass that fell from one of the shattered windows.
Owen Ribble, manager of the insurance office, said he worked there alone Saturday afternoon and left just 15 minutes before the accident occurred. He returned to the scene after police summoned him from his home at 340 Coles ave., Cherry Hill.
Police moved back a crowd of several hundred persons who gathered at the intersection. Then they cordoned off Broadway at Spruce and Line sts., a block north and south of Pine, and barricaded Pine st. at 5th and 6th, a block east and west of Broadway.
William H. Harker, Camden city director of public works, reached the scene at 4 P.M. and immediately declared the building condemned.
The Fire Department’s heavy-duty rescue squad built heavy lumber supports against the building and cautiously removed the fire engine at 5:20 P.M.
Six Injured in Crash Of Fire Truck, Auto
Camden Courier-Post —
HALF HIDDEN after plunging into building at Pine st. and Broadway following collision with a car, a fire engine acts as a support for the shaken structure. Six persons were injured, one seriously, when the engine ran out of control after the crash.
A city fireman and five other persons were injured Saturday when a fire engine collided with a car at Broadway and Pine st. and then plunged into an insurance office on the corner, according to police.
Admitted to Cooper Hospital with severe cuts was Fireman Isaac Muns, 36, of 710 State rd., identified by police as the driver of the engine. His condition was listed as serious. George Dixon, 31, of 1554 Ormond ave., the other fireman riding the engine, was treated at the hospital for cuts.
Mrs. Maria Gruber, 74, of 505 Pine st., who police said was standing on the corner waiting for a bus when the accident happened, was admitted to West Jersey Hospital with multiple fractures of the right leg.
Also treated at Cooper Hospital for multiple injuries were Charles Wilson, 24, of 407 Monmouth st., Gloucester City, identified as the driver of the car, and his passenger, Janet Mayhew, 17, of 210 Mercer st., Gloucester.
Workmen began shoring up the front of the building occupied by the Basin and Basin Agency Inc., automobile insurers, as fears were expressed the building might collapse from the impact if the engine were moved. Raymond McClintock, a city employe, of 530 Lester ter., sustained a cut that required four stitches in his neck when a piece of glass fell from the second floor while the shoring operation was underway.
The agency was closed when the engine plunged into the three-story brick office building on the southeast corner.
Police said it had not been determined whether Mrs. Gruber was hurt by falling debris or by the engine itself as it jumped over the curb.
The engine was responding to an alarm sounded for a minor fire at 434 S. 6th st. It was confined to one room of a private house.
Fire Department Personnel Records
Camden Division of Fire personnel records for Raymond F. McClintock