NEW YORK (1010 WINS)  -- A wild fire tore through four buildings in Jersey City Sunday morning leaving 11 people homeless.

The fire started around 11:00 a.m. when apparently a woman and her husband were doing laundry in the basement of 272 St. Paul Avenue.

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"According to one of the tenants of the building, they were washing clothes, a circuit breaker went off, they immediately went upstairs and found the fire in a second floor bedroom," Jersey City Fire Director Armando Roman tells 1010 WINS reporter Terry Sheridan.

The blaze took about 100 firefighters nearly three hours to bring under control. Fire officials say one maybe two of the buildings may have to be torn down. The other two buildings suffered severe damage.

Resident Thomas Wyman tells Sheridan, he and his brother lost everything.

"I came out, I don't have my wallet, my identification, I have nothing. Everything I had was in the house, so I'm completely wiped out, destroyed," Wyman says.

Wyman's house, at 207 St. Paul Avenue, is one of the ones that will likely be torn down.

Pictures by 1010 WINS Terry Sheridan.

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