{"id":665,"date":"2014-08-31T16:34:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T20:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=665"},"modified":"2014-08-31T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T20:59:23","slug":"minor-injury-heavy-smoke-damage-in-brick-house-fire-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/08\/minor-injury-heavy-smoke-damage-in-brick-house-fire-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor Injury, Heavy Smoke Damage in Brick House Fire Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_666\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/laurelton.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-666\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/laurelton-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Equipment owned by the Laurelton Fire Company in Brick. (Photo: Laurelton Fire Company)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/laurelton-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/laurelton-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/laurelton.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Equipment owned by the Laurelton Fire Company in Brick. (Photo: Laurelton Fire Company)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A house fire in Brick on Sunday afternoon resulted in a minor injury to a firefighter and heavy damage to a home on West Princeton Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out shortly after 2 p.m. Sunday at the home at 1673 West Princeton Avenue, said Kevin Batzel, Fire Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a heavy smoke condition at the house when the firefighters arrived, but the people were outside,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Herbertsville and Laurelton fire companies responded. One firefighter suffered a minor injury after he tripped, Batlzel said. The firefighter was taken to Ocean Medical Center where he was treated and released a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation by Deputy Fire Marshall Paul Matula and the Brick Township Police Department, but it is not considered to be suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>The home itself suffered heavy smoke damage, but a relatively small amount of fire damage, Batzel said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/08\/minor-injury-heavy-smoke-damage-in-brick-house-fire-sunday\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A house fire in Brick on Sunday afternoon resulted in a minor injury to a firefighter and heavy damage to a home on West Princeton Avenue. The fire broke out shortly after 2 p.m. Sunday at the home at 1673 West Princeton Avenue, said Kevin Batzel, Fire Marshall. \u201cThere was a heavy smoke condition at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,198,199],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-fire","tag-west-princeton-avenue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/laurelton.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-aJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}