NOTE: The original post incorrectly identified the burning building. Subsequently, it was learned that the building which burned actually abutted the Arteferro building, and was used by Rex Bedding to store materials used in its mattress manufacturing business.
This post corrects that misinformation.
A major fire at a Rex Bedding storage facility,
Central Avenue, adjacent to Fire Division HQ
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PT is posting photos of a major fire that broke out in the Rex Bedding storage facility, next door to the Plainfield Fire Division's headquarters building.
PT was alerted by diligent readers R and R and hotfooted it over -- literally, in slippers -- with camera and videocam in hand around 8:30 AM.
Flames are visible on the first floor
Traffic was being shunted off Central Avenue at the West 4th Street intersection.
Crowds of onlookers gathered in front of the Allen Apartments across the street and in little knots along Central Avenue.
The ladder truck pumping water on the roof
By the time PT left, after about 30 minutes, the Fire Division was completely mobilized with the ladder truck pumping a stream into the burning building's roof and ground hoses being hooked up.
Three news helicopters arrived and circled the site as PT was leaving the area.
A news chopper hovers over the fire scene
-- Dan Damon
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