PATERSON, New Jersey (WABC) — Paterson police surrounded a house, negotiating with a resident who may have stabbed a relative and set it on fire early Monday morning.
The home on Berkshire Avenue caught fire just after midnight.
One man was taken out with an apparent stab wound. He sustained a non-life-threatening injury.
After the heavy fire was extinguished, police were negotiating with another resident apparently barricaded in the basement.
Police have surrounded the home and are investigating.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Separately, a three-alarm fire burned through two homes just before 11:30 p.m. on Sunday.
John Del Giorno reports that a firefighter was injured by falling debris in the fire.
The fire broke out in one building on Getty Avenue and spread to another.
A Paterson firefighter was struck by falling debris, he was treated and released from St. Joseph’s University Medical Center.
Two dozen residents were left homeless.
The cause of that fire is also under investigation.
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