CLIFTON (AP)  — An early morning blaze has ripped through two North Jersey homes, destroying one and leaving the other uninhabitable.

 

A smouldering four-alarm fire that burned two homes in Clifton
A smouldering four-alarm fire that burned two homes in Clifton (ABC 7)
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Clifton Fire Chief Vincent Colavitti Jr. says the fire broke out at about 4:30 a.m. Thursday in a two-family home and quickly spread to an adjacent house.

Everyone was able to escape unharmed. It's unclear how many people were displaced by the fire.

Neighbors say they tried to use a garden hose to extinguish the blaze, but it had no effect.

It took 60 firefighters about two hours to control the fire. Colavitti says the house where the fire started needs to be demolished, but the other could be salvaged.

Colavitti says four firefighters were treated at the scene for minor injuries. The cause of the blaze is under investigation.

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