| At approximately 3:15 PM, Engines 9-6 and 9-2 and 9-3-3 responded to a working fire at the Colonial Gardens Apartments in Avenel on the first alarm. Crews were confronted with two apartment buildings being well involved, with fire through the roof. By the time operations were completed at 2 AM, 52 apartments were destroyed. This fire, which reached a total of 9 alarms, required assistance from all of the Woodbridge Township fire companies, plus apparatus from Metuchen, Sayerville, Edison, South Plainfield, Piscataway, North Brunswick as well as the Middlesex County Tanker Task Force. Numerous EMS agencies as well as the American Red Cross, Salvation Army, and the Woodbridge Township CERT responded to provide rehab for the firefighters. |
