Firefighters say two businesses, Brick Oven Pizza and Heavenly Stress Therapy, were damaged in the fire.
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey (WPVI) — A fire closed a portion of the Atlantic City boardwalk Friday morning.
The Action Cam was at the scene of the fire shortly before 9:30 a.m. at the corner of St. James and the boardwalk, near New York Avenue.
Firefighters worked to get the flames under control.
Firefighters say two businesses, Brick Oven Pizza and Heavenly Stress Therapy, were damaged in the fire.
There is no word on the cause of the fire.
No injuries were reported.
MORE TOP STORIES:
ATLANTIC CITY — A fire on the boardwalk on Friday morning damaged five businesses and took three hours to bring under control.
Flames broke out around 8:30 a.m. and spread across five businesses along the Atlantic City boardwalk between Saint James Place and New York Avenue, according to the City of Atlantic City. 60 firefighters took three hours to bring the fire under control.
Video of the fire showed smoke pouring out the front of the businesses.
Aftermath of fire on the Atlantic City boardwalk between Saint James Pl. and New York Ave 6/24/22
Aftermath of fire on the Atlantic City boardwalk between Saint James Pl. and New York Ave 6/24/22 (City of Atlantic City)
loading…
Several businesses damaged
Two of the businesses on the block, Brick Oven Pizza and Heavenly Stress Therapy, took the most damage, firefighters told 6 ABC Action News. The block also includes the Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Devki Jewelers and H&A Fashion.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
The Atlantic City Fire Department Friday afternoon did not respond to New Jersey 101.5’s request for more information.
Dan Alexander is a reporter for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at [email protected]
Click here to contact an editor about feedback or a correction for this story.
Inventions you probably didn’t know are New Jersey born
ATLANTIC CITY − A three-alarm Boardwalk fire Friday morning damaged five stores adjacent to the Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum.
Atlantic City Fire Chief Scott Evans said crews brought the blaze under control before 11 a.m.
Scott said the fire on the Boardwalk at St. James Place involved five stores — a psychic reading shop, Heavenly Stress Therapy, H&A Fashions, Devki Jewelers and a pizza shop.
He said an employee at the clothing store arrived at work Friday morning and started moving racks of merchandise out to the Boardwalk when she smelled smoke.
He said the fire quickly went to three alarms with 60 firefighters responding to the scene.”These are much older buildings next to Ripley’s Believe it or Not, so that caused more damage. There was heavy fire and smoke damage and major damage to the fashion store, psychic shop and the stress therapy business,” said Scott, who is also the city’s emergency management coordinator.
He said the cause of the fire remains under investigation but may have been started in a ceiling in one of the buildings.
“The fire is financially devastating for those businesses because summer sales in July and August are what gets them through the year,” Scott added.
