Over a dozen people displaced after Jersey City fire damages 3 buildings
JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- A raging fire in Jersey City forced more than a dozen people from their homes Wednesday.
It happened just after 10 a.m. on Olean Avenue.
Officials say the multi-alarm fire started in one home and spread to two neighboring buildings.
"I go to take a shower, and all I hear is screaming, and 'everyone get out, get out, get out, Oscar, get out.' They're banging on my door, so I didn't even shut the shower off," resident Oscar Ruiz said. "I got my social security in there. I got my birth certificate. My wallet's in there, my ID. All that important information that's going to take months for me to get back, you know."
Everyone managed to get out safely.
The city's Office of Emergency Management and the Red Cross are now working to help the 17 residents who were displaced.
