A Chabad rabbi and his family escaped a fire that destroyed a synagogue in the New York City suburbs on Friday, NJ.com reported .

No one was injured, but the Torah scrolls were burned in the blaze, according to the outlet.

“I saw flames outside my window. We said, ‘get the kids,’ and ran outside,” Rabbi Yitzchok Lerman told NJ Advance Media . “I turned around to retrieve our Torah scrolls, but unfortunately, the building was already engulfed.”

The cause of the fire at the Bergen County synagogue Beth El Chabad in Rutherford, N.J., remains unknown, but Frank Nunziato, mayor of Rutherford, told The New York Times that there was no indication of arson.

The Rutherford Police Department received calls at around 2:45 a.m. on Friday morning about an “active structure fire” at th

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