Newark residents displaced after escaping house fire
Officials say some Newark residents barely escaped a fast-moving fire this afternoon and now some of them have been left homeless. The fire made its way through the second and third floors of a house
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Jan 25, 2012, 6:59 AM
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Updated 4,714 days ago
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Officials say some Newark residents barely escaped a fast-moving fire this afternoon and now some of them have been left homeless.
The fire made its way through the second and third floors of a house on South 19th Street. Half a dozen people escaped from the blaze.
Witnesses say the the fire broke out after 1 p.m.
It's not clear what sparked the fire, but some witnesses said they heard a loud boom before the flames started shooting out.
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