Fire damaging two apts. may be due to electrical problems

Monday, February 15, 2010

An electrical problem is being eyed as the cause of a one-alarm fire that damaged two Jersey City apartments late Friday afternoon, fire officials said.

The Jersey City Fire Department was called to a fire at a two-story wood frame house at 241 Randolph Ave., at 5:42 p.m. Friday, Fire Director Armando Roman said.

Arriving just four minutes later, the department declared the fire under control at 5:55 p.m., he said.

Roman said the fire appeared to be caused by an "electrical" problem in the ceiling in the living room at the front of a ground floor apartment. The fire caused moderate damage to that room and moderate smoke damage to the second floor apartment above, officials said.

There were no injuries reported and no one was displaced, he said.

CHARLES HACK