Dozens of people displaced by early-morning fire at Union City apartment building
UNION CITY, N.J. -- Dozens of people are displace after flames ripped through a building Friday in Union City, New Jersey.
Chopper 2 was over the four-alarm fire around 6 a.m. after a large portion of the roof collapsed at an apartment building on 19th Street near Kerrigan Avenue.
A shelter was set up at a nearby school to help the 52 people left without a home.
"We think we have one person who's been hurt, who's been burned, she's in the hospital. And we also have a couple pets that perished in the fire," Union City Mayor Brian Stack said on the scene.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
