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Hope and Highland avenues, Passaic, NJ

Fire Ravages Passaic Multi-Family Home, Displaces 18 Fire Ravages Passaic Multi-Family Home, Displaces 18
Fire Ravages Passaic Multi-Family Home, Displaces 18 VIDEO: Eight families were displaced by an intense fire that destroyed a Passaic multi-family home Friday night. No injuries were reported. Flames blew through the roof, part of which collapsed less than a half-hour after the four-alarm blaze broke out on the second floor of the wood-frame building at Hope and Highland avenues around 8 p.m. "Thank God everyone is out, safe and accounted for," Mayor Hector Carlos Lora said. Eighteen people in all received temporary food, lodging and clothing thanks to the Red Cross and the city. Most were able to find shelter with family, Lora said. Fir…