Beachwood Carpet Land / Circle Shop Fire

It is our sad duty to bring you news which many already know - Saturday night, June 13th, the Beachwood Carpet Land / Circle Shop building, located at the corner of Beachwood and Atlantic City boulevards, caught fire around 9 p.m. According to witnesses, it appeared to have started in a second floor apartment and traveled through parts of that area before being controlled and extinguished by local fire companies. Further information is not available at this time, except to say the Ocean County Fire Marshal’s Office was investigating early Sunday morning, June 14th. Any new information learned will be posted here.

The Beachwood Historical Alliance would like to join the rest of the local community in extending its sympathy and support to Carpetland’s residents and its owners, the Barrett family and Viking Management. Messages have been coming into the BHA’s various online addresses with concern and questions of how to contribute aid. We hope restoration work is possible and that they will be able to recover quickly from this unfortunate event, both for the future of their business and the health of our downtown overall, and we will keep everyone posted on potential future programs and events to support this site, its owners and residents.

We also would like to thank our local fire and first aid companies for their diligence and success in getting everyone out of the building safely and treated properly while still managing to control the fire from spreading through more of this important community business and cultural landmark.

Photos of the fire and following morning are posted below. Anyone wishing to share further photos of the fire for our archives may write to beachwoodhistoricalalliance@gmail.com, either to attach them in an email or inform us as to how or where we can receive them.

The following morning.

MORE PHOTOS CAN BE FOUND BY CLICKING HERE.