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by Barbara Laker Published June 8, 2025, 7:20 p.m. ET

It was around 4 a.m. Sunday when Lisa Lee woke up to flashing red lights outside her bedroom window in a quiet neighborhood in Moorestown and thought police had pulled over a drunk driver.

But just as the sun was coming up, she knew it was something more. Trucks from every department imaginable pulled up. “There were fire trucks, an ambulance, multiple police cars, and other like unmarked tactical trucks,” she said.

Curious, she stepped outside to walk her dog near Cove Road and East Oak Drive.

“Do I have something to worry about?” she said she asked firefighters. “Is it a gas leak or some kind of contamination?”

“No,” a firefighter told her. “We would have evacuated everyone.”

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