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Pennsauken fire displaces about 40 residents after hundreds evacuated
A woman was hospitalized after jumping from the fifth floor of Cooper River Plaza as a fire spread through the Pennsauken apartment complex early Monday. Officials said the blaze affected at least 20 apartments and displaced about 40 people.
A woman was hospitalized after jumping from the fifth floor of Cooper River Plaza in Pennsauken to escape a fire early Monday, authorities said. Her condition was not immediately available.
Fire crews were dispatched at about 2:16 a.m. to the apartment complex in the 2400 block of McClellan Avenue. Pennsauken Fire Chief Jonathan Hutton said investigators believe the fire began in the woman’s apartment and spread to at least 20 apartments.
Several hundred residents were evacuated, and about 40 people were displaced, officials said. The fire was under control by about 6 a.m., when residents were being allowed back into the building.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.