An elementary school razed by a devastating fire in 2014 has been rebuilt, and will soon open again to hundreds of schoolchildren.
The devastating fire destroyed the James Monroe Elementary School in Edison on a cold March Saturday two-and-a-half years ago.
While a prosecutor's investigation concluded a cigarette discarded by the school's custodian of the time probably caused the fire, there was never enough evidence to take him to court.
Showing NBC 4 New York through the new school on Wednesday, superintendent Richard O'Malley described how teachers had been hard at work preparing it for the children.
Principal Lynda Zapoticzny said the school had retained its sense of community through the rebuild.
"This was a building that we lost but we were still all together, we were still all a community, so wherever we traveled we were still a school" she said.
Now the school is all but fire proof, administrators say, and it will open in a couple of weeks.
