Park Ridge condo residents get first look at fire damage
CLOSE After a fire gutted apartments , residents came back to gather some of their belongings. Chris Pedota/NorthJersey.com Flames tore through a condo building at 225 N. Maple Ave. in Park Ridge on Aug. 19. (Photo: Bill Tompkins/Special to NorthJersey.com) On Saturday morning residents of a Park Ridge condominium complex were allowed to return to collect belongings after a fire Friday night displaced about 50 people. No one was injured and the cause of the fire that started about 9 p.m. on North Maple Avenue remained under investigation, Park Ridge Fire Chief Thomas Derienzo said. On Saturday, a blue tarp covered the collapsed roof of the building where the fire started. There are 25 apartments in the building and some surrounding the fire had smoke and water damage. Windows were also boarded up with wood on the first and second floors. Police were called in to block the entrance to a condominium complex on North Maple Avenue after too many people were trespassing to take ...