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LAWRENCE -- Four apartment units were rendered uninhabitable and two firefighters were injured battling a two-alarm blaze at the Lawrenceville Gardens Apartments Saturday.
Officials said the cause of the fire was electrical.
A neighbor of the Franklin Corner Road apartments reported smoke coming from a second-floor window of Building E around 12:30 Saturday afternoon.
Police encountered heavy smoke coming from the second floor of an end apartment unit when they arrived, Sgt. David Buxton said. Officers James Vardanega and Ed Podbielski evacuated the building.
Firefighters arrived a short time later with reports of a child still trapped on the second floor. The report turned out to be false, but two firefighters were injured while searching for the child.
Slackwood Fire Co. firefighter Chris Laird suffered back injuries when a ceiling collapsed on him and Lawrence Road Fire Co. firefighter Keith Kent suffered a burn on his hand. Both were treated at Capital Health System at Fuld hospital in Trenton and released, officials said.
Full story in Sunday's Times
by Michael Ratcliffe/The Times
Saturday June 07, 2008, 1:04 PM
PRINCETON TOWNSHIP -- Investigators are probing the cause of a two-alarm fire that badly damaged a residence on Redding Circle, off Mount Lucas Road, Saturday morning.
The blaze, which was reported about 9:30 a.m., was fought by the Princeton Fire Department with the help of firefighters from Rocky Hill, Kingston, Plainsboro, Lawrence and elsewhere.