Crime & Safety

Blaze Kept to Clothes Dryer of Oaklyn Terrace Home

Volunteer firefighters from all three Lawrence Township fire companies responded.

A fire in a clothes dryer was extinguished before it could spread and damage a home in the 100 block of Oaklyn Terrace this evening, Wednesday, Feb. 2.

Resident Luis Juarez - who serves as a volunteer firefighter with Princeton Fire Department - reported the blaze shortly before 9 p.m.

Juarez and a Lawrence Township police officer emptied two dry powder fire extinguishers on the burning dryer in an effort to contain the blaze, according to Chief Shaun Dlabik of the Lawrence Road Fire Co.

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Volunteer firefighters from all three township fire companies - Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville and Slackwood - then arrived and finished extinguishing the blaze.

After firefighters confirmed that the blaze had not spread beyond the clothes dryer, the damaged machine was carried out of the home as a precaution and placed in the rear yard.

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A fan was used to clear smoke from the house before Juarez and his family returned to the residence.


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