Fire spread through the three-story structure, forcing the evacuation of more than 65 residents to Passaic City Hall.
PASSAIC, New Jersey --
The fire broke out near the first-floor courtyard of a building on Hamilton Avenue just before 2 a.m. Friday."My wife woke up because she smelled the smoke," resident Solomon Gasper said in Spanish. "When I went to the kitchen to open the window, that's when it exploded." "He went to grab my mom, and my sister they started running out of the house," daughter Janet Gasper said. "That's when they heard the other windows explode from the heat. They turned around to see and they couldn't see anymore, everything was fire, like in the kitchen walls and smoke and everything. They grabbed whatever they could and just got out."
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