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ELIZABETH, N.J. —
What started as a two-alarm house fire quickly intensified to five-alarm, causing at least six injuries early Thanksgiving Day morning in New Jersey
Fire officials say the blaze at the three-story wood-frame house located at 420 Magie Avenue in Elizabeth broke out just after 1 a.m.
By 4 a.m., the blaze was declared five-alarms and firefighters from three towns were needed to get the flames under control by 6:15 a.m.
Reports say the fire originated on the first floor and worked its way up the house, burning through at least 50 percent of the roof.
"[It's] an old, wood-frame house," Elizabeth Deputy Fire Chief Carl Heitmeyer told PIX 11 News. "It rapidly extended up the outside as you can see there where it's all blackened. It went up the outside and then back in.
Firefighters were able to evacuate all residents, including at least 10 children, from the six families who lived at the location through the upper floors. Three residents suffered minor injuries and one woman needed to be carried out of the top floor.
"I heard smoke alarms ringing in the hallway," one resident told PIX 11 News, while carrying a child. "I went out to the front door, opened the door and the smoke hit me directly in the face. So I ran back inside and grabbed my family and ran out."
Two firefighters nearly didn't make it out of the blaze and issued a mayday call. They were extracted from the burning building through ground ladders extending to the second floor.
"The guys were deep in there on the second floor and it [the fire] went up the front and cut them off," said Heitmeyer. "They had fire in the rear, fire in the front. They couldn't get out."
A total of three firefighters suffered minor injuries, one of them an ankle injury.
The Red Cross is assisting the six displaced families.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
What started as a two-alarm house fire quickly intensified to five-alarm, causing at least six injuries early Thanksgiving Day morning in New Jersey
Fire officials say the blaze at the three-story wood-frame house located at 420 Magie Avenue in Elizabeth broke out just after 1 a.m.
By 4 a.m., the blaze was declared five-alarms and firefighters from three towns were needed to get the flames under control by 6:15 a.m.
Reports say the fire originated on the first floor and worked its way up the house, burning through at least 50 percent of the roof.
"[It's] an old, wood-frame house," Elizabeth Deputy Fire Chief Carl Heitmeyer told PIX 11 News. "It rapidly extended up the outside as you can see there where it's all blackened. It went up the outside and then back in.
Firefighters were able to evacuate all residents, including at least 10 children, from the six families who lived at the location through the upper floors. Three residents suffered minor injuries and one woman needed to be carried out of the top floor.
"I heard smoke alarms ringing in the hallway," one resident told PIX 11 News, while carrying a child. "I went out to the front door, opened the door and the smoke hit me directly in the face. So I ran back inside and grabbed my family and ran out."
Two firefighters nearly didn't make it out of the blaze and issued a mayday call. They were extracted from the burning building through ground ladders extending to the second floor.
"The guys were deep in there on the second floor and it [the fire] went up the front and cut them off," said Heitmeyer. "They had fire in the rear, fire in the front. They couldn't get out."
A total of three firefighters suffered minor injuries, one of them an ankle injury.
The Red Cross is assisting the six displaced families.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
