By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer
PLAINSBORO — Seven residents in two apartments on Pheasant Hollow Drive were displaced after a fire destroyed one apartment and caused smoke and water damage to the second apartment Monday afternoon, according to Plainsboro Township officials.
The fire, which was reported around 1:30 p.m., was contained to Apt. 208 at Pheasant Hollow Drive. That apartment suffered fire, smoke and water damage. The four residents in Apt. 208 were displaced by the fire.
Three adjacent apartments — two of which were vacant — sustained smoke and water damage that left them uninhabitable. Three people were displaced from the only apartment among the three that was occupied, officials said.
There were no injuries.
Although the cause of the fire is still under investigation, Fire Marshal John Petrino said investigators have not ruled out careless smoking as the cause.
At the time of the alarm, the Plainsboro Fire Co. was battling a brush fire off Scudders Mill Road, near the Novo Nordisk pharmaceutical company, along with the West Windsor Fire Co. and the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.
The Plainsboro Fire Co. responded to the Pheasant Hollow Drive call, along with firefighters from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, West Windsor Township, Monroe Township, Cranbury Township, Hightstown, Princeton and Kendall Park fire companies.
The Plainsboro EMS and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory EMS also responded to the fire. This was the second fire in Plainsboro in less than one week. A fire damaged a house on Plainsboro Road on June 22.
