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On Oct. 15, 1981, eight people died in a tenement fire at at 87 - 89 Park Ave. in Paterson. A number of occupants were injured jumping from the building. Four alarms were transmitted for Box 11. Police accused a man spurned by a woman with setting the blaze, according to an Associated Press dispatch. Fire Chief Harold Kane said witnesses reported seeing a man pour gasoline in a hallway and set it alight. The fire was the third major blaze in the city over a period of four hours.
