Husband, Wife Killed in Fire at Multi-Family Home In Bayonne

BAYONNE, N.J. (CBSNewYork) -- A community is in mourning after a husband and wife were killed in a fast-moving fire overnight.

CBS2's Ilana Gold reported the flames spread quickly through the three-story multi-family home on East 21st Street in Bayonne, trapping five people on the second floor.

"Some sustained burns, others suffered substantial smoke inhalation," said Fire Chief Greg Rogers.

As 1010 WINS' Roger Stern,  two of those people, a man and woman in their 60s, were killed. The three other victims were taken to the hospital.

Gold reported that Patricia Angelini ran out of the house with her four kids, grandmother and cousin, but her mother and father were trapped. She spent hours waiting to see if her parents were emerge from the flames. But they never made it.

"We were trying to get my mother started out and whatever fell and it caught her air conditioner and the air conditioner went," she said.

The grief-stricken daughter told WCBS 880's Sophia Hall that everything happened so quickly. She said her mother had just celebrated her birthday and her father was an amputee.

"They're both 65 and I just lost my uncle, which is his brother. I lost him two months ago and the last thing I need is to lose my parents on top of it," she said. "I don't know to get mad, cry or what. I don't know what to feel."

The woman was able to escape, but her 6-year-old son was rushed to the hospital after an asthma attack, Hall reported.

Daniel Conway said he helped get his roommates out safely.

"I couldn't see, I couldn't breathe, it was probably one of the scariest things I've ever seen in my life," he said.

Conway said he got to the front porch safely, only to find his escape blocked by burning debris.

"We had to jump to the next porch to get away because stuff was falling. I got burned on my hand and back," he said.

Nineteen people lived inside the multi-family home. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.