Fire Spreads Through Howell NJ Shopping Plaza

A fire damaged “several” businesses located within a Route 9 shopping plaza, reports nj.com.

Shortly before 4 p.m. on Monday, authorities responded to a working structure fire in the Aldrich Plaza on Route 9, police Detective Sgt. Eileen Dodd said in an email.

As of 5 p.m., firefighters from several fire companies were still at the scene of the fire, which Dodd said appeared to have started in the Colonial Coffee Shoppe before spreading to “several other businesses.”

Larry Mesimer, who works at Art Beins Karate two doors down from the coffee shop, said he smelled smoke and looked in the coffee shop’s window, which closes at 3 p.m. on Mondays.

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