Princeton Packet
29 November 1983

General alarm

All three of Princeton’s volunteer fire companies turned out in the rain at 9:05 p.m. Monday following an alarm from the Great Wall Chinese restaurant in the Princeton Shopping Center. The small fire was caused by grease in the kitchen’s exhaust system, said Chief William Rodweller, but was largely extinguished by restaurant staff. The firemen began to roll up their hoses by 9:20 p.m. Customers quickly left the restaurant, which suffered only smoke damage in the fire, said owner Liang-Tung Lung. Smoke also filled the adjacent New Look Salon. “I just finished having dinner there half an hour ago,” said volunteer fireman and borough councilman-elect Irvin Urken as he arrived in helmet and coat. “If I’d been a little slower I wouldn’t have had to pay the bill.”

(Andrea Kane photo)