Child hospitalized after being rescued from burning New Jersey apartment

A child was taken to the hospital after becoming trapped in a Monmouth County apartment that caught fire Saturday afternoon, authorities said.

According to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, the fire started at a building at the Middlebrook complex in Monmouth off Highway 35 in Ocean Township around 2:16 p.m.

Police arriving at the apartment found the building completely engulfed in flames, prosecutors said.

A Vanamassa Fire Company firefighter entered the burning building and rescued the child, who was immediately taken to the hospital, prosecutors said.

The child survived, officials confirmed, but a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office declined to provide information about the child’s age, gender or the type of injuries he was treated for.

The two-alarm fire prompted a response from more than a dozen local fire departments and first responders, according to the Wanamassa Fire Company. who reported the incident on Facebook.

It is unknown whether any adjacent premises were damaged by the fire.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation, officials said.