Yankees Broadcaster John Sterling Left Homeless After Huge Fire at New Jersey Apartment Complex

Tough news for longtime Yankees play-by-play voice John Sterling, along with hundreds of other New Jersey residents on Wednesday night. The New York Daily News reports a large fire broke out in the Avalon at Edgewater apartment complex Sterling calls home. According to The News firefighters from multiple municipalities have been battling the fire for over four hours, which began around 4:30 p.m. and caused massive damage.

Sterling spoke to the paper from a hotel and detailed the fire:

"Sterling said he was returning to the building, attempting to board an elevator, when the noticed the smell of “intense smoke.” “On one side of the building the elevators had already been shut down. I went to my elevators (at the back of the building) and tried walking in, but the smoke was so intense I said to myself, ‘John, you better get the hell out of here.’ So I just drove away,” he recalled. “One positive is, if there can be any, is all the people that have called me up asking how I’m doing. Like Willie Randolph, a secretary from the Yankees. Suzyn – another friend from Los Angeles. It must be a big fire because she heard about it on Ch. 7 LA,” he said."

NJ.com writes that the 200-foot flames could be seen across the Hudson River in Manhattan.

Below is a sense of the size of the fire.