Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 16 October '85

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Chief: Force Sprinklers In Diamond Beach Homes

By E.J. DUFFY DIAMOND BEACH - Erma Fire Chief Robert McNulty urged Lower councilmen last week to require sprinkler systems in single-family homes and duplexes being built in this township resort. Both are exempt from such safety requirements of the state's Uniform Fire Code that takes effect in January. But the chief, whose district includes Diamond Beach, wants them covered by a municipal Alternative. Most of the resort is controlled by developer Robert Ciampitti's corporations. This time two years ago he announced plans for a $150 million community on 60 acres over the next 10-15 years. Plans included a shopping center, 250-room motel, 615 townhouses, 225 single-family homes, a private beach and country club. "They're putting up a lot of wood," said McNulty, where there are "minimum size (water) mains." For the past three years, the chief griped, he's been trying to solve the fire protection problem of Diamond Beach that's several miles through summer resort traffic from the Erma firehouse. Meanwhile, he said, its contractors "keep building and building and building." McNulty brought his sprinkler proposal to council, he explained, because township planners told him they'd get back to him "in a couple of months" after he presented it to them. (The only acknowledgment he received at council's meeting, though, was audience

applause; councilmen didn't comment on it.) ••I THINK WE SHOULD demand it of them," McNulty said of sprinklers and contractors who would install them in expensive Diamond Beach homes if his proposal ever becomes local law. If prospective homeowners there can afford $100,000 for second homes, they can also afford to protect them from fires, the chief reasoned. Besides, suppression systems would pay for themselves over several years through reduced fire insurance rates, he said. "What you're doing here," McNulty added, "is shifting the responsibility for fire protection to the homeowner" from taxpayers in other Lower communities. An emergency township substation has been proposed for Diamond Beach, he recalled. "But who's going to pay the freight for that?" he asked, answering: "Everybody else." Even if Ciampitti built the substation, as was once suggested, taxpayers would still pay. for its manpower and equipment. If the township ordered sprinklers in singlefamily homes and duplexe however, firesupression devices would then be required in all resort structures. That, McNulty observed, would minimize the need for a substation by supressing any blaze with sprinklers until Wildwood Crest or Erma firefighters arrived to fight it. "Let's shift some of the responsibility for some of these problems to the people who are reaping the profits," the chief said.

SCHOLAR ATHLETE — Mark Halbruner receives Cape May Kiwanis Club award for outstanding academic and athletic achievement from Arnold Nyblade, Kiwanis Club president. left, and Jeffery Israelow, awards committee chairman. Graduating first in his class of over 200 at Lower Cape May Regional High School, Halbruner was a member of the varsity football team and captained the baseball team. He is attending Rutgers University.

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Grants To Cape Students POMONA - Two Cape May County residents who are freshmen at Stockton State College here recently received $1,000 awards for their first year of study. They are: Matthew Pelligrine of Cape May. a graduate of Wildwood Catholic High School, and Maryann Pionegro of Ocean City, a 1985 graduate of Holy Spirit High School BOTH ARE assured of continuing support through their four years at the college provided they maintain a minimum 3 0 gradepoint average, under the grants from the Richard Stockton Slate College Foundation In high school. Pelligrine was a member of the National Honor Society, the Spanish Honor Society, and the Science Club. He received many science fair honors. Including first in the Stockton fair when he was in 11th grade. He has served as an intern at the Wetlands Institute, giving "insect walks" at Cape May Point. PIONEGRO, who was awarded the Trass Family of McDonald's scholarship, was a member of the National Honor Society of Holy Spirit's stage crew. She was also a member of St. Augustine's youth group, was an assistant teacher for first communicants at her church, and a lector at Sunday Mass. jyb

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