VIDEO: A four-alarm fire ripped through a nine-unit residential building in Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood on Sunday, leaving 25 residents displaced and two firefighters injured.
The fire broke out just before 11 a.m. at 48 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and quickly engulfed multiple units and sent thick black smoke into the air.
News 12 talked to a nearby resident who called 911 and banged on windows and doors to alert residents to get out. He didn’t want to share his name or show his face on camera but here’s what he described happened:
“An old man came out using a cane and that’s when they told me there were three dogs upstairs. But by the time I looked up the hallway was engulfed in fire.”
Bright orange flames lit up the sky toward the back of the building as fire crews on top of the building used tools to break through the roof to release the smoke billowing inside.
Newark received mutual aid from surrounding municipalities including Jersey City, Montclair and Belleville.
