YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: An 85-year-old woman and her 41-year-old son fled their Elmwood Park home as a fire quickly swept through it, collapsing the second floor, this morning.
Garfield, Saddle Brook and Clifton firefighters also responded, along with Elmwood Park EMS, to the 1½-story home on 16th Avenue off 55th Street just before 9:30 a.m.
No one was injured, Police Chief Michael Foligno told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
The mother and son “evacuated themselves when they noticed the smoke and flames,” the chief said.
“The fire did not appear to be suspicious and was believed to have started in the area of the front porch of the home,” he said just before noon, “but the exact cause has not yet been determined.”
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