US Edition6 firefighters suffer minor injuries in a building fire in New Jersey
JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, JUL 10 – Fire caused floor collapse in a vacant three-story building, injuring six firefighters with smoke inhalation and heat exhaustion, officials said. Cause under investigation.
- A three-alarm fire broke out around 1:30 a.m. Thursday in vacant buildings on Fourth Street in Jersey City, New Jersey, causing two to collapse and damaging a third.
- The fire started in a basement area that crews initially could not access, and neighbors reported that squatters had lived in the buildings but were evicted last summer.
- Emergency personnel conducted a thorough search of the destroyed structures but did not locate any victims, while the Jersey City Office of Emergency Management and the Red Cross assisted in relocating five residents from nearby buildings.
- Seven firefighters and a captain sustained minor injuries such as smoke inhalation and heat exhaustion. According to Jersey City Fire Chief Jack Johnson, there have been indications from residents that the building may have been occupied by homeless individuals.
- Officials plan to assess taking down the buildings due to severe damage described as "two melted houses," and the fire remains under investigation amid displaced residents and safety concerns.
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6 firefighters hurt as Jersey City buildings burn overnight
Flames erupted in a three-story building in Jersey City overnight, quickly spreading to a next-door building and injuring a half-dozen of the firefighters who responded to the scene, authorities say. Emergency crews were called to the scene on Fourth Street around 1:30 a.m. and found multiple structures engulfed. Investigators say both buildings were vacant. The flames were so intense that they at one point caused floors to collapse onto the gro…
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