Crime & Safety
Fire Destroys New Brunswick Autobody Shop Early Friday Morning
This is the incident that closed Easton Avenue through the Friday morning commute.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — An autobody shop in New Brunswick was destroyed in a fire late Thursday night, reports News 12, which has photos of the destroyed autobody shop.
The fire started at 3 a.m. Friday at Prestige Auto Service on Easton Avenue. The fire spread to a home next door, they reported.
The auto body shop was empty when the fire started, and the person inside the home was able to escape. However, the autobody shop was destroyed and the home was badly damaged.
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This is the incident that closed Easton Avenue through the Friday morning commute. Easton Avenue only fully reopened to traffic at 10 a.m. Friday.
Officials did not say what initially caused the fire.
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