FIRE DESTROYS VACANT RUMSON HOME
The house was fully engaged when police arrived around 10:25 p.m. (Photo above courtesy of Matt Daiter; below, courtesy of Sea Bright Fire Department. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
Fire swept through a vacant one-story house under reconstruction in Rumson Wednesday night.
“It was pretty much a ‘surround-and-drown,'” fire Chief Kevin McCarthy tells redbankgreen. “The house is a total loss.”
The fire was reported at 10:23 p.m., McCarthy said, and police arrived to find the house “already had fire through the roof.”