A person died in a fire Tuesday night in Jersey City, officials said.
The fire happened in an apartment in the College Towers area of the city shortly before 9 p.m., according to Kim Wallace Scalcione, a spokeswoman for the city’s Department of Public Safety.
Firefighters arrived and found a fire on the fifth floor of the building and found one person unconscious inside, Scalcione said. They were taken from the structure, CPR was administered and they were taken to a local hospital where they were pronounced dead…