Oven Fire Engulfs Hillsborough Apartment, Resident Displaced

HILLSBOROUGH, NJ — An oven fire engulfed a Hillsborough apartment causing one resident to be displaced.

The oven fire was reported on Monday at 4:52 p.m. at an apartment at 68 Gateway Blvd. Unit 307, said Hillsborough Police Sgt. Joseph Paschall.

Police officers found the oven in the apartment engulfed in flames and used fire extinguishers to slow the fire before firefighters arrived, said Paschall.

Firefighters were then able to extinguish the fire.

The resident of the unit was displaced, and the fire does not appear suspicious, said Paschall.

In addition to the Hillsborough Police Department, the following fire companies and agencies responded: Hillsborough Fire Stations 36, 37, 38, Neshanic Fire Company, Raritan Fire Department, Manville Fire Department, Millstone Valley Fire Department, Somerville Fire Department, Finderne Fire Department, Robert Wood Johnson EMS, Hillsborough Township Emergency Management, Hillsborough Bureau of Fire Safety, Somerset County Fire Commissioners, and Somerset County Emergency Services Commissioners.

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