Nearly 10 people safely escaped from two houses that caught fire in Elizabeth on Wednesday afternoon, according to Mayor Christian Bollwage.
The fire on the 400 block of Murray Street started around 1:45 p.m. Videos posted on the Citizen App showed smoke and flames pouring out of at least one home on the street. The fire is located across the street from Abraham Lincoln School 14.
Bollwage says that the fire started in one of the homes and then spread to another. He said that nine people between the two houses were able to get out – seven from one home and two from the other. He also said that the two other neighboring homes were evacuated as a precaution…