Firefighters responded to the Oxford Valley Mall Wednesday afternoon for a trash compactor fire.
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Just before 4 p.m., crews were called to the closed Boscov’s store at the mall in Middletown Township for a report of a building fire.
Frank Farry, the chief of the Langhorne-Middletown Fire Company, said it was discovered upon arrival that a trash compactor in a garage of the store was on fire.
Contractors used a piece of heavy equipment to move the trash compactor until firefighters arrived and dumped water on it, Farry said.
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Drone footage captured by LevittownNow.com reader Anthony D’Alessandro showed smoking coming from the blaze before firefighters arrived.
Farry said the fire filled the soon-to-be demolished store with smoke.
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No injuries were reported.
Fire crews remained at the scene for about an hour.
In addition to the Langhorne-Middletown Fire Company and the Middletown Township Department of Fire and Emergency Management, crews from the Fairless Hills, Levittown No. 2, Penndel, and William fire companies responded.
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Developer CornerstoneTracy is in the early stages of building a two-phase 600-plus apartment complex at the site.
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