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Cops: Faulty light fixture began fire
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 03/28/07
BY NICK CLUNN
COASTAL MONMOUTH BUREAU
WEST LONG BRANCH — A faulty light fixture appeared to have started a fire that damaged a single-family home at Summers Avenue and Monmouth Road on Wednesday morning.
The West Long Branch Vol. Fire Department arrived about 7 a.m. after someone inside the home smelled smoke and ran to a neighbor's home to call police, according to Capt. Lawrence L. Mihlon. No one was injured.
Investigators believe the fire started in the basement and spread to the home's first floor after it was ignited by a faulty florescent light fixture, Mihlon said.
The response to the fire closed Monmouth Road for about two hours.
If this was a flourescent light hanging from a floor joist in the basement and connected by a cord, maybe damage could have been reduced if my power strip had cut off power when the unit began malfunctioning.
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