Firefighters in northern New Jersey battled a massive nine-alarm blaze on Sunday that tore through a two-story warehouse and spread to a second structure blocks away, officials said.
Crews were dispatched just before 2 p.m. to the 300 block of Cortlandt Street in Belleville after reports of a rapidly spreading fire, according to preliminary emergency information.
Upon arrival, firefighters encountered heavy flames engulfing a brick warehouse building, prompting an escalation to a nine-alarm response and drawing mutual aid from multiple surrounding municipalities, including Newark, Nutley, and North Caldwell…