Firefighters rescued a woman who was trapped on the top floor of a residential building that caught fire in the Jersey City Heights early Tuesday morning, officials said.
Eight adults and three children were displaced after a fire broke out inside 76 Hutton St. — a three-story, five-family building — shortly after 12:30 a.m., Jersey City spokeswoman Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione said.
When firefighters arrived, they were met by flames and a heavy smoke condition on the second floor. A woman was in a third-floor window, trapped above the fire and smoke, Wallace-Scalcione said.
While firefighters stretched a vertical line to extinguish flames on the second floor, other firefighters deployed a 35-foot ladder to the top floor of the building and rescued the woman, Wallace-Scalcione added.
The woman refused medical attention, Wallace-Scalcione said, adding the cause and origin of the fire remain under investigation.
The Red Cross responded and assisted the 11 people affected by the blaze.
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