![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Motor Vehicle Commission set up a special room within a week to help the residents replace drivers’ licenses, registrations, and vehicle titles. Representatives of the Department of Community Affairs were on site within 24 hours offering assistance. Chris Christie’s office reached out within an hour of the fire, asking how they and the state could help. Many township religious, cultural, and social organizations held events for the victims and the Woodbridge School District converted the Avenel Middle School gym into a community center where the residents gathered daily to obtain information and receive assistance. Avenel Presbyterian Church, under the direction of Pastor Jason Tucker, served as the donation center where the fire victims went to receive assistance and necessities. The owners of the property, Middlesex Management, worked diligently to relocate and house the tenants and help them recover valuables and important paperwork prior to demolition of the structures. on July 10.īy the weekend, after a single automated phone call and a few postings on the township web page, township residents, businesses and corporations, charitable groups and associations, emergency service organizations, and even citizens throughout Middlesex County, the state of New Jersey, and the nation, opened their hearts and pocketbooks contributing thousands of dollars in donations, gift cards, clothing and toiletries, food, school supplies and other necessary items - all of which has been provided directly to each and every family and apartment resident. ![]() The people of Woodbridge have once again showed their true spirit of community in the days and weeks after the tragic apartment fire at the Woodbridge Village-Colonial Gardens apartment complex in the Avenel section of town that left 49 families with nothing but the clothes they were wearing at 3 p.m. ![]()
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