KEASBEY – Fire officials were still on the scene of a massive six-alarm fire at the Bayshore Recycling Center on Crow Mills Road on the morning of Dec. 17, according to John Hagerty, director of communications for Woodbridge Township.
“The fire started in the cardboard recycling area of the facility,” he said, adding the fire then spread to the single-stream area, a separate facility, which has since collapsed. The fire also damaged the corporate office.
The Keasbey Fire Department is the lead agency handling the fire investigation. The fire call came in around 12:20 p.m. on Dec. 16. Hagerty said the mayor’s office was notified around 12:33 p.m. Smoke from the fire could be seen from the Driscoll Bridge and Garden State Parkway.
Multiple fire agencies assisted in the fire including all nine fire districts in all sections of Woodbridge, Perth Amboy, South Amboy and Sayreville. Hagerty said the New York City Fire Department sent two fire boats to assist from the Arthur Kill.
There were no injuries reported and the Woodbridge Department of Public Works facility, which is next to the Bayshore Recycling Center, was not damaged, Hagerty said.