Four families remained homeless Sunday after a three-alarm fire blazed through their condo complex in Harmon Cove in Secaucus late Saturday night, reports northjersey.com.
The fire broke out a little before 10 p.m. and was under control within several hours, but not before it severely damaged the top two floors of the three-story building, which is part of a condo complex on Sunset Key, said Secaucus Mayor Michael Gonnelli. There were four attached condos in the structure, and each family in each unit was displaced, with their building uninhabitable.
Gonnelli, a former fire chief in the town, was among the firefighters injured at the fire. The mayor suffered some burns on his face, arm and back, and was treated and released from Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center, which is not far from where the fire took place. Several other firefighters had minor injuries, Gonnelli said. None of the condo occupants were injured.
The mayor credited the Secaucus Fire Department with keeping the fire contained to one building, stopping it from spreading to the other condo buildings attached to it.
“The miracle is that we protected the buildings on both sides,” Gonnelli said.
He added that the buildings are made of wood, and were constructed in the 1970s.
When firefighters arrived at the scene the blaze was already coming out of the roof, and part of the ceiling came down when the responders were inside the structure, Gonnelli said.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, the mayor said.
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