A family of five, including three children and two adults, is dead after a fire tore through their home overnight in Paterson, New Jersey, the mayor said. Strong winds fueled the flames on Emerson Avenue as firefighters also battled frigid temperatures to get the blaze under control, officials said Saturday.

Ibrahim Omar parlayed support from his two influential predecessors — Mayor Andre Sayegh and Assemblyman Al Abdelaziz — to prevail.

Five people, three of them children, were killed after being trapped inside a fast-moving house fire in New Jersey, according to a source. The flames broke out Friday night at the single-family home on Emerson Avenue in Paterson,

Five people, including three children, died in a wind-whipped house Halloween night house fire in Paterson, New Jersey. Firefighters arrived at 9:56 p.m. Friday and encountered the heavy blaze in the rear of a small wood-frame residential structure at 15 Emerson St.

A rapid moving house fire claimed the lives of five people Friday night in Paterson, New Jersey, according to fire officials.

A fast-spreading house fire killed two adults and three children, all from the same family, in Paterson, N.J., on Halloween night.

There were major delays on I-80 in Paterson, New Jersey, on Thursday morning after a tractor trailer overturned. Traffic delays stretched for miles and all lanes on the westbound side were closed near Exit 58 after the truck crashed into the divider and overturned at around 5:30 a.

PATERSON, N.J. (PIX11) — A family of two adults and three children was killed in an overnight house fire in New Jersey, according to Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh. The victims were recovered from the second floor of a Paterson home at 15 Emerson Ave.

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