Edison community members rally together, support those impacted by senior center fire
Seniors were forced out of their homes and into the cold Tuesday night, escaping a 4-alarm fire which became deadly.
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Community members are rallying together to help those impacted by a deadly fire at the Inman Grove Senior Center in Edison.
Initially, fire officials thought it would be a long time before residents returned to Wing C of the facility where the fire started. But some of them were able to go back home on Thursday afternoon. About 30 tenants had to stay at the Sheraton again overnight.
Seniors were forced out of their homes and into the cold Tuesday night, escaping a 4-alarm fire which became deadly.
Debbie Eaker was who lives in Wing C is just waiting on the OK to return home. She says she was in her apartment during the time of the fire.
"I was home a little while then I started smelling smoke in the whole place," she says. "You see the fire blazing in the window, just blazing."
She and other tenants are hoping to return within the next few days, but some may be displaced for weeks.
According to The Red Cross, tenants living in the third, fourth and fifth floors of Wing C were cleared to return on Thursday afternoon.
The Middlesex County Jewish Community Center is rounding up volunteers. It says the biggest need right now is translators who understand Korean, Japanese and Mandarin.
That is the majority of the people who have been displaced from their homes, and this will help with law enforcement communicating with them and helpers communicating with them to get them what they need," said Lindsay Norman, with the JCC.
They plan to update their social media with more on how people can help.
