Two-Alarm Blaze Injures Three NJ Firefighters

    Jan. 11, 2020
    After nearly four hours, around 65 Newark firefighters were able to extinguish the commercial blaze that broke out in a vacant two-story building and spread to a nearby structure late Friday.

    By Olivia Rizzo

    Source NJ Advance Media Group, Edison, N.J.

    Newark, NJ, Department of Public Safety
    Around 65 Newark, NJ, firefighters battled a two-alarm blaze that broke out at a vacant commercial building and spread to a nearby structure late Friday.
    Around 65 Newark, NJ, firefighters battled a two-alarm blaze that broke out at a vacant commercial building and spread to a nearby structure late Friday.

    Three firefighters were injured while battling a 2-alarm fire in Newark on Friday night.

    About 65 firefighters responded just before 9 p.m. to a 2-story vacant commercial building on the 700 block of South Orange Avenue, according to a release issued by the Newark Department of Public Safety.

    The fire then extended to a second vacant building.

    One of the injured firefighters was taken to University Hospital for treatment of a minor head injury and released. The other two firefighters were treated at the scene by EMS and remained on duty, officials said.

    The fire was extinguished around 1:18 a.m. The cause and origin of the fire is under investigation by the Newark Fire Division’s Arson Unit.

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