Dozens Homeless in Adjoining Perth Amboy Pre-Dawn Blazes [VIDEO]
A fire that started at one home on Cortlandt Street quickly spread to other buildings, leaving dozens homeless in the pre-dawn hours.
A pre-dawn fire that started in one home in Perth Amboy quickly spread to several others, causing building collapses and leaving dozens of people homeless. The five-alarm inferno tore through the 600 block of Cortlandt Street, plowing through one home and spreading to nearby homes. Perth Amboy firefighters were there en masse, but even their ladders and fire hoses did little against the raging blaze. When the building on the corner of Huntington and Cortlandt caught fire, for at least a half hour, it was a hopeless task to try to extinguish the blaze. Firefighters tried, but backed off as flames burst through every window of the upper floor, then through the roof, and finally the conflagration caused the rear of the building to collapse. …
soo sad
7:10 am on Tuesday, June 5, 2012
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