By CHRIS FRY
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HACKENSACK, N.J. (CN) – Tenants displaced from last week\’s massive residential apartment fire along the Hudson River in Edgewater, N.J., claim in court that the lack of sprinklers in attics of their complex and use of lightweight wood construction \”may have accelerated the spread of the fire.\”
The class action against Avalon Bay Communities in Bergen County Superior Court comes just days after a Jan. 21 fire burned to the ground the 408-unit luxury housing complex known as Avalon Bay at Edgewater, constructed in 2002.
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