UPDATE: Ocean Grove Fire Destroys Buildings, Three Firefighters Injured (Live Video)

A fire that raged through Ocean Grove today destroyed buildings and displaced a number of residents on Seaview Avenue left three firefighters injured, according to app.com.

Eleven fire departments raced to the area around 5:30 a.m. - including companies from Asbury Park, Neptune Township and Ocean Grove raced to 29 Seaview Ave. in Ocean Grove around 5:30 a.m. as smoke shot up into the sky and over the ocean several blocks away, according to NBC4 New York.

No civilians were injured, but three firefighters were hospitalized, including one with a facial injury and another with smoke inhalation. All three were treated and later released from Jersey Shore University Medical Center later Friday afternoon.

Neptune Township officials said the fire gutted at least three homes and a vacant hotel and that the structure that first caught fire was the Warrington Hotel, according to the report.

rotappeared to be completely destroyed.

The Neptune OEM said residents of the condo complex were evacuated and all utilities have been cut off in near the fire.

Emergency lights lit up, and the fire was so intense shortly after 6 a.m. that it had caught an adjoining condominium complex on fire, Chopper 4 video shows.

The five -alarm fire was at the La Pierre condominium, a multi-story building on Beach Avenue in Ocean Grove that was the former LaPierre Hotel, one witness told reporters. ABC 7 said the fire destroyed at least three buildings.

Video/photo courtesy of Robert Siliato of Jerseyshoreimages.com and @Woodyfarmhouset