The authorities say that the fire that was racing across the South New Jersey neighborhood, killing two young sisters, and it appears that they were in their duplex.
The authorities said on Friday that the fire that was racing in the South New Jersey neighborhood, killing two young sisters and burning six homes, apparently in Duplex, where the girls ’family lived.
John Whitstein, the city’s firefighting outlet, said that the cause of the fire in Melville was still under investigation, but it does not seem to be suspicious.
The child’s father was injured in the fire, which took several hours to control after being reported at approximately 11 pm on Wednesday. Two houses were already overwhelmed by fire when the firefighters arrived, and the fire soon spread to a third. The heat was so severe that it melted part of a fire truck and a parked car.
Whitchteen said that the preliminary efforts of the firefighters had been hindered because the nearby box was not working. The crews had to run about 800 feet (about 240 meters) from Khartoum to another tap and the length of nearly this length to a third to combat fire, which burned for several hours before it was controlled.
City officials said that the bodies of girls, between the ages of 8 and 10, were found after Thursday afternoon amid the rubble. Their names were not released. Their father was treated in a hospital for non -threatened injuries. His name was also not released
About twenty residents were displaced from the fire. One of the women said that she and her three young children fled safely from their burning house because the fire woke up to her boyfriend, who managed to reach them to safety.
Melville is about 30 miles (50 km) west of Atlantic City.