Sadly, though, the one-family home was destroyed, and a grandmother who has been living there for 56 years now needs the community's help.
The woman, who had to jump out of a window to escape the flames and was under observation at Overlook Hospital, shared the home with her granddaughter and the granddaughter's three children, said her grandson Ameer, who is organizing a GoFundMe campaign on their behalf. All of them now are now "homeless," he wrote.
"She moved to Summit in 1963 to make a better life for her family and this is so sad because there are so many memories that were made in that home my mom was raised there and so were my sisters and I," he wrote.
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