Nobody was hurt, and the fire was contained to the room by the Middletown Township Fire Dept.
When Carmen Ramos returned to the Comfort Inn on Route 35 in Middletown Sunday night, she saw fire trucks rolling out of the parking lot. When she pulled up outside her ground floor room, she was stunned to see the plate glass wall shattered, and the bed and furniture inside blackened by smoke and soaked by water. "What happened!" said Ramos, a FEMA worker from Kissimmee, Florida who has been working in Lincroft since November. "Oh gosh!" she said. A fire in her room set off an alarm at 5:32 p.m. and drew firefighters from four township fire companies and three first aid squads. Luckily nobody was injured, and the fire was contained and under control by 5:59 p.m. The smell of the smoke from the fire could be detected as far away as …
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About 45 firefighters from several companies responded. One was taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion injuries, and a dog died in the fire.
Middletown Township firefighters responded to a "fully involved" house fire at 127 Cherry Tree Farm Road in the New Monmouth section at 1:56 p.m. Friday. One firefighter was treated for heat exhaustion injuries, said Fire Department spokesman John Isaksen. The Port Monmouth Fire Company volunteer was taken to to Riverview Medical Center by the Fairview First Aid Squad. Firefighters discovered a dog inside the house that apparently perished in the fire, Isaksen reported Saturday. The cause of the fire is being investigated by the Monmouth County Fire Marshall’s office and the Middletown Township Fire Prevention Bureau. Department Chief John D’Altilio commanded the scene where approximately 45 firefighters from four companies were on …
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Chris
7:09 pm on Thursday, January 17, 2013
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