Crime & Safety
Kitchen Fire Damages Jamestowne Village Apartment In Toms River
The fire was contained to the kitchen; neighboring apartments were evacuated but residents later were able to go home, officials said.
TOMS RIVER, NJ — An accidental kitchen fire damaged an apartment at the Jamestowne Village Apartments on Thursday but there were no injuries, Toms River fire officials said.
The fire, which was reported about 1 p.m., forced evacuations of surrounding apartments while firefighters battled the blaze, said John Novak, chief inspector with the Toms River Bureau of Fire Prevention.
The fire was contained to the kitchen of a first-floor apartment and extinguished within 15 minutes of the call reporting it, Novak said.
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Toms River Fire Companies 1 and 2 responded, along with Pleasant Plains, East Dover, Island Heights and Silverton, who responded when the second alarm was transmitted, Novak said.
Residents of the surrounding apartments were allowed to return to their apartments, but the fire-damaged one was not immediately inhabitable, Novak said.
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Inspector Charles Bauer investigated and ruled the fire was accidental.
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