Travelers at a New Jersey airport witnessed a massive fire as more than a dozen cars in a nearby parking lot went up in flames Thursday.
According to the New York Daily News, the Terminal C parking garage rooftop at Newark Liberty International Airport was officially closed at 7 a.m. ET due to a fire that spread to at least a dozen vehicles and sent plumes of black smoke into the air.
Officials from the airlines/newark-airport-tearing-down-terminal-a-building-new-facility.html” target=”_self” rel=”nofollow”>Newark airport said the Level 1 arrivals area was closed and asked passengers heading to the facility to use Levels 2 and 3 for passenger pick-up. The cause of the fire was not immediately apparent, but no injuries were reported.
Video of the fire was shared on social media.
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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said airport operations were running as usual.
The blaze at Newark Liberty International came just hours after a fire tore through a paper plant in Bergen County, New Jersey, just minutes away from the airport. The massive inferno burned for hours Wednesday night into Thursday as firefighters battled freezing temperatures.
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