{"id":2977,"date":"2019-04-05T19:44:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T23:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2019-04-05T19:44:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T23:44:57","slug":"officials-toms-river-apartment-fire-caused-by-unattended-cooking-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2019\/04\/officials-toms-river-apartment-fire-caused-by-unattended-cooking-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials: Toms River Apartment Fire Caused by Unattended Cooking Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2975\" style=\"width: 6010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2975\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2975\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/james_st_fire_tr_150.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters at the Jamestowne Village apartments in Toms River, April 4-5, 2019. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/james_st_fire_tr_150.jpg 6000w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/james_st_fire_tr_150-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/james_st_fire_tr_150-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/james_st_fire_tr_150-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/james_st_fire_tr_150-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/james_st_fire_tr_150-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/james_st_fire_tr_150-681x454.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 6000px) 100vw, 6000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters at the Jamestowne Village apartments in Toms River, April 4-5, 2019. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cooking oil that had been left unattended in a pan was responsible for starting a late-night fire Thursday that broke out in Building 22 of the Jamestowne Village apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector Kevin Britton of the Toms River Bureau of Fire Prevention, along with Travis Seaman of the Toms River Police Department and Chris Bonner of the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office were able to determine the origin of the fire, which broke out after 11 p.m., to be in the kitchen on top of the stove in Apartment No. 5. The fire started due to \u201cunattended cooking oil in a pan, which had ignited,\u201d a statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the first floor apartment where the fire started sustained heavy fire damage along with smoke and water damage. \u00a0The second floor apartment received minor fire damage, but heavy smoke and water damage. Britton has deemed the building unsafe for habitation. One occupant of the first floor apartment received second-degree burns on their hand \u2013 the only injury that resulted from the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was fought under the command of Chief Mike Muttie and with assistance from Pleasant Plains Fire Company, Silverton Fire Company, East Dover Fire Company, Island Heights Fire Company, Bayville Fire Company and the RIT Team. The fire was knocked down quickly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2019\/04\/officials-toms-river-apartment-fire-caused-by-unattended-cooking-oil\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooking oil that had been left unattended in a pan was responsible for starting a late-night fire Thursday that broke out in Building 22 of the Jamestowne Village apartment complex. Inspector Kevin Britton of the Toms River Bureau of Fire Prevention, along with Travis Seaman of the Toms River Police Department and Chris Bonner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[106,822,11],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-fire","tag-jamestowne-village","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/james_st_fire_tr_150.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}