{"id":305656,"date":"2026-10-13T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305656\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:00:21","slug":"nj-man-accused-of-starting-house-fire-that-injured-firefighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305656\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ man accused of starting house fire that injured firefighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 An Ocean County man is accused of starting a fire at an abandoned property over the weekend that injured a responding firefighter.<\/p>\n<p>Around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, police and fire officials responded to a fire at a detached garage on the property, located on Maple Avenue in Plumsted Township.<\/p>\n<p>One firefighter at the scene injured her hand. She was treated at the hospital and released.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office, investigators discovered that 21-year-old Matthew Waldman, of Plumsted Township, had been staying at the residence illegally. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Waldman started the fire.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken into custody on Sunday and charged with arson, burglary and aggravated assault on a firefighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 An Ocean County man is accused of starting a fire at an abandoned property&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36,31,422,915,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-305656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-arson","tag-crime","tag-fire","tag-new-jersey","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}