A 27-unit apartment building, at 27 Park Place and Monroe Place, was evacuated Friday, March 6, when a portion of the roof collapsed through the ceiling of a section of the fourth-floor.
The Fire Department was initially dispatched at 7:30 a.m. for a water leak, according to Bloomfield Fire Chief Lou Venezia.
“There was a large pool of water on the roof,” he told The Independent Press, “and it was just getting worse. A small portion of the corner of the roof collapsed. We evacuated the building, did an apartment-by-apartment search, helping people grab things. We contacted the Office of Emergency Management, the building department, the health department and human services.”…