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Bergen Street, Passaic, NJ

Quick Response Protects More Than 30 Families Fleeing Passaic Apartment Building Fire Quick Response Protects More Than 30 Families Fleeing Passaic Apartment Building Fire
Quick Response Protects More Than 30 Families Fleeing Passaic Apartment Building Fire Thanks to Passaic police, firefighters and tenants themselves, no one was injured in a suspicious Sunday morning apartment building fire that sent flames through the roof, authorities said. Police who got there quickly knocked on doors and got the more than 80 residents out of nearly three dozen apartments in the four-story building at the corner of 4th and Bergen streets, Fire Chief Patrick Trentacost said. "We pulled up and got the lines in place fast," Trentacost said, noting that the blaze began in an upper floor stairwell and spread to the roof. "This type of fire gets away very quick…