A fire that ripped through a multi-family home in Newark, New Jersey overnight is under investigation.
NEWARK, N.J. -- Video shows a large response on Eckert Avenue as emergency crews tried to get the flames and billowing smoke inside the home under control. The fire started just after midnight Sunday. Windows on the second and third floors were completely blown out. Newark fire officials did not immediately say how many people were injured in the fire or how it started, but the Red Cross said 15 people in seven families were receiving emergency assistance.
'Thank God that I'm here, but I've lost everything'Linwood Duncan, who lives in a unit at the multi-family home, told CBS News New York that several families reside there.Duncan said he's lucky to be alive, since he decided to spend the night at his son's place because another tenant was throwing a birthday party and he wanted to avoid the noise. 'There were two different families on the sun porch and there was another family that lived on the second floor.
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