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PATERSON, N.J. — Several people were displaced after a four-alarm fire tore through two apartment buildings in Paterson, New Jersey, late Monday afternoon.
Amazingly, no one was injured, but it certainly was a close call for some firefighters.The flames made quick work of the two multi-family buildings, destroying the homes of a dozen people as passersby watched in horror. “People were running out of the building, it was like a movie type of fire,” witness Alison Cacares said. “I’ve never seen anything like that. It was horrible.”
The flames broke out around 5:30 p.m. in the house on 23rd Street at 10th Avenue, and there was no stopping the blaze as it spread to a neighboring building. “I’m just leaving it in God’s hands,” fire victim Margaret Gibson said. “He fix everything for everybody. Everything happens for a reason.”
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