Seven-alarm fire in Bound Brook, New Jersey finally extinguished

The enormous seven-alarm inferno that engulfed several buildings in New Jersey and sent monstrous flames shooting into the night sky has been extinguished.

“The fires are out,” Bound Brook Borough Councilman Abel Gomez told NJ.com in a report published Monday morning.

Though, Gomez added, firefighters are “still pouring water on some of the buildings, some of the hot spots.”

Miraculously, there were no major injuries reported as a result of the blaze, aside from a firefighter who suffered a sprained ankle.

The roaring fire erupted around 8 p.m. Sunday inside an apartment that was under construction and retail complex called the Meridia Downtown.

The blaze then spread to another under-construction apartment complex, as well as two homes and an electric store, Bound Brook Police Chief Vito Bet told the news outlet.

More than 100 residents of the Somerset County town – which has a population of about 10,000 people — were forced to evacuate and around 3,000 people were initially left without power.

Officials are still probing the cause of the blaze.

New Jersey Transit suspended service on the Raritan Valley Line in both directions before it resumed early Monday. The Bound Brook rail station, however, will be closed through Monday.

Gomez told NJ.com that the inferno was a massive setback for the area, which has suffered from severe flooding over the past two decades.

The fire-ravaged complexes – developed with private funding – were within the downtown redevelopment zone and were slated to be part of an area revitalization following the completion of a 2016 flood-control project, the councilman said.

“Bound Brook was in the process of a renaissance,” Gomez told the news outlet. “After all the floods we’ve had here, and now we have this fire.”

The Bound Brook Police Department called the blaze “disastrous.”