A woman whose had to rescue her dog from a burning car in Absecon last week is trying to get help to replace the lost vehicle.
Stephanie Reamer was inside the T-mobile in the Shoppes of Absecon on the White Horse Pike on Thursday night, when she went to check on her dog, Lucy, she said.
That's when she noticed something odd, and then realized it was flames in the front of her Toyota Corolla. Lucy was in the back.
"The rest of everything is a sort of a blur," Reamer wrote on GoFundMe. "I just know the split second I realized what that was, I ran and yanked Lucy out."
Scared and confused, Lucy wriggled out of her harness and was gone.
"Some sweet woman came from somewhere, and hugged me," Reamer recalled. "She hugged me as she prayed for me to get through this, for my dog to be safe, and for positive energy to come my way."
Eventually, a young man came and said the dog was safe in his car.
"Things were still a haze but I remember feeling such a release and weight lifted," Reamer wrote.
While she is grateful her precious dog is safe, she now is without the vehicle she maintained for 19 years that got her to work and to take her 77-year-old mother to doctors appointments and errands.
It was not clear how the fire started. But now Reamer is hoping to move on with a vehicle someone offered to sell her.
