For 27 displaced by 2 fires, Sunday could be ‘one of the worst days of their lives’ Updated Jan 24, 2021; Posted Jan 24, 2021 Firefighters at the scene of a fire on Springfield Avenue in Newark on January, 24, 2021.Ed Murray | NJ Advance Media for Facebook Share A pair of fires broke out in Newark almost simultaneously on Sunday afternoon, displacing 27 people, some of them children, and forcing many into the bitter cold as smoke and flames damaged or destroyed their homes and possessions, the city’s fire chief said. No one was injured in either of the fires, which were under investigation Sunday, Newark Fire Chief Rufus Jackson said while standing out front of a gutted white and yellow two-family house on the 100 block of Sunset Avenue, in the city’s Vailsburg section.