The fire started in the crawl space below the unit on Weston Forbes Court. No one was injured in the blaze.
EDISON -- A township resident safely made it out of her two-story unit Wednesday before a fire tore through her townhouse, officials said.
The fire started in the crawl space below the unit on Weston Forbes Court around noon and caused significant fire damage to the unit leaving it uninhabitable, Edison Fire Marshall Tim Morley said in a release.
The woman said she woke up Wednesday to a smoke-filled unit and ran outside before firefighters arrived, Morley said. She was treated on scene for smoke inhalation.
Edison firefighters put the blaze out within 30 minutes. The fire caused minor smoke damage to the townhouse's neighboring units.
The incident is still under investigation, Morley said.
The township's Office of Emergency Management and Health Department are helping to relocate the tenant into a unit in the same complex.
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