Firefighters battled a suspicious three-alarm fire in Jersey City, New Jersey, that left two police officers with smoke inhalation, according to a report.
According to WABC-7, police arrived first on scene at the fire on Neptune Avenue early Wednesday, but were repelled by intense heat and smoke.
Embers from the fire spread to three other buildings that also caught fire, the report said.
“We were going from the interior of the building at the time, we did have to pull some people out once they realized the fire was below them,” Jersey City Fire Chief Steven McGill told reports. “We had to start rerouting the lines to the basement, where we thought most of the fire was. It was already spreading to two other buildings.”
Crews were reportedly challenged by bitterly frigid weather conditions after a cold front struck a swath of the country from the Midwest to the East Coast. In Indiana,three people were killed in a mobile home firewhere crews were also challenged by weather conditions;in Chicago, a plane slid off an icy runway and three people were killed in a crash in Michigan.
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