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© Reena Rose Sibayan / The Jersey Journal

JERSEY CITY, NJ, AUGUST 3, 2005 -- Firefighters work in thick smoke while battling

a five-alarm blaze at the corner of Neptune Avenue and Old Bergen Road

that damaged nine buildings and left 12 families homeless.

Firefighters Rick Siero, right, and Anthony Kloako

cool off after battling a five-alarm blaze.

JERSEY CITY, NJ, AUGUST 3, 2005 -- Yasminda Hall watches with her

three-year-old daughters Savannah and Sarah from the sidewalk

outside their home as firefighters battle a five-alarm blaze on the

corner of Old Bergen Road and Neptune Avenue that damaged

nine buildings and left 12 families homeless.

JERSEY CITY, NJ, AUGUST 4, 2005 -- Firefighters look over the charred debris of a

building destroyed in the five-alarm fire. The building which was under construction

at the time of the fire would have housed five homeless families.

Maria Davidas talks to a contractor amid garbage bags of belongings she and

her family salvaged from their fire-damaged home on Neptune Avenue.

Essam Tadros, owner of E&E Wines & Liquor Store on Old Bergen Road,

outside his store that was damaged by the fire.