Firefighters in East Orange battled a raging house fire that ignited in a residential neighborhood in the city this afternoon. According to preliminary reports, the unoccupied three-story house located at 99 Lenox Avenue went up in flames at around 2pm sending crews to the scene where they observed two vehicles on fire and extending to the rear of the house. A search of the home for injured or trapped occupants came back negative. Firefighters gained control of the blaze in a little over an hour with the cause under investigation. Montclair and Bloomfield's bravest provided mutual assistance to East Orange.