From Riverside Park I noticed some thick smoke coming from the NJ side. I got to a high vantange on the NY side and witnessed a
raging house fire.
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Looks to have started in the yard and spread to the main house.
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Firemen vented the roof but the strong wind sucked the fire throughout the house.
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Eventually they got the fire in the yard under control and then dumped water on top of the house for 1 hr. It sucks this happened on Father's Day, but hopefully no one was hurt and the fire did not spread to any of the nearby houses.