Station 33, 32, 34, 62, Joint Base Station 67, Ocean County Fire Coordinator and Ocean County EMS Coordinator are responding to Arista Care if Whiting for a reported structure fire.
Update: Holding with units on air only. A heater was on fire but was contained. No evacuations needed.
Crews ventilating at this time.
Whiting: Structure Fire
There isn’t a fire
I work there
Everyone is safe
Jessica Bates
Kera Mele
Update on website- small fire is extinguished.
There was no fire it was a heating unit smoking
Natalie Mazzacca
Thank you- We have updated the story.
Ocean County Scanner News thank you. We don’t want families in a panic.
Natalie Mazzacca
Absolutely not- We try to update quickly when it’s a serious incident.
This is false. I am present on the unit of what is going on and your story is inaccurate.
Daniella Renae
We updated the article to reflect the faulty heater which caught fire. Click to follow.
Ocean County Scanner News That’s not true either. It did not catch fire.
Daniella Renae That is what the command post updated to dispatch as the cause of the fire response.
heater was smoking. Unplugged so never was a fire
Anthony Moriarty if you heard the trucks while you were inside here’s why
Again? Jesus that place needs to get it together
Stacy Russakow