Firefighters extinguished a fire that ignited inside a house in Newark's West Ward on Monday morning.
According to fire officials, fire broke out inside a two and a half story wood-framed house located in the 60's block of Montrose Street just before 3:30 a.m. where crews arrived to find smoke coming from the attic of the home.
Crews entered the house with two lines stretched and swiftly knocked down the blaze.
A search of the home for trapped or injured occupants came back negative.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.