Edison school fire

Much of James Monroe Elementary School in Edison was reduced to ash during last month's raging fire, but its formal exit is scheduled to begin on Friday.

Approximately 500 students in Edison returned to class on Wednesday after a fire destroyed their school building.

Custodian Jerome Higgins, charged with causing the Saturday night fire at Edison's James Monroe Elementary School, by tossing a lit cigarette into a trash can, says he is "devastated."

Jerome Higgins, the custodian supervisor at James Monroe Elementary School in Edison, has been charged with a disorderly persons offense for flipping a lit cigarette butt into a trash can last weekend. Minutes after that happened, the entire school burned to the ground.

A custodian has been charged in connection with the fast-moving fire that destroyed James Monroe Elementary School in Edison on Saturday.

As Edison Public School officials try to find a temporary location for James Monroe Elementary School students in Edison after a fire destroyed the school reports say a cigarette may to blame for starting the blaze.

A fast moving fire destroyed the James Monroe Elementary School in Edison on Saturday night.