NEWARK, N.J.
(AP) — Authorities say five people, including three young children,
have been killed in an apartment house fire in New Jersey's largest city
that started in a vacant building next door.
Newark fire officials say those killed lived in two third-floor apartments.
The fire started just before 2 a.m. Friday and spread quickly, damaging four other buildings and displacing about 15 people.
The cause remains under investigation.
Newark
Fire Capt. John Brown says a 3-year-old girl and her 4-year-old brother
died in a back apartment. He says their parents escaped the blaze with
two other children, and were hospitalized with non-life threatening
injuries.
Fire officials say another young female child, a teenage boy and an adult died in the other apartment.
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