MAPLEWOOD, N.J. (PIX11) — At around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, Mikaela Milano’s video enabled, motion activated doorbell caught the unluckiest of visitors; smoke and flames, billowing from a raging fire just behind her apartment in Maplewood, New Jersey.
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Firefighters were struggling to contain the blaze as it tore through — at a shockingly fast rate — a still under construction AvalonBay apartment complex.
“I come from a construction company — like family, so I was a little concerned that they were doing stick, not concrete or some other material,” Milano said. And by “stick” she means wood.
That’s just her opinion. But she offers it on the heels of a fire which destroyed about one hundred unfinished, empty, AvalonBay units which were built with the same type of lightweight or engineered construction materials that burned so quickly two years ago, farther north in Edgewater, where another AvalonBay apartment complex burned to the ground.
