Fire Rips Through Shrewsbury Estate

Nobody was hurt in the blaze, Shrewsbury FIre Chief Pete Gibson said.

A stately Sycamore Avenue estate dating to 1903 went up in flames Monday afternoon in a four-alarm fire.   Volunteer firefighters and emergency rescue squads turned out from Shrewsbury, Northside (Tinton Falls), Little Silver, Red Bank and Eatontown. "It came in around 1:15 p.m." Shrewsbury Fire Department Chief Pete Gibson said outside 469 Sycamore, where crews on ladders were dousing the roof with water.  "We had heavy fire showing on the first floor upon our arrival," said. "We made an interior attack and from that point we found it was in the walls and had climbed up into the attic and the basement and started making its run throughout the rest of the house, across the whole entire attic." The way old houses like these were built is …

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