A four-alarm fire fanned by strong winds engulfed a block in West Baltimore early Friday morning, authorities said, displacing eight people, though no one was injured.

Dozens of Baltimore City firefighters responded to the blaze, which started before 4 a.m. along the 2200 block of North Fulton Avenue and affected at least 15 buildings, including a bar, liquor store and food market as well as rowhomes, a fire official said.

The fire was contained around 6:44 a.m., though smoke lingered in the air and crews continued to spray water into buildings on the block.

Awakened by the sound of sirens, Sheneel Jackie, who lives on nearby Woodbrook Avenue, walked out of her home around 3:12 a.m. to see flames climbing up the church near the corner of Woodbrook Avenue and North Fulton Avenue. Once it hit the top floor, the fire spread rapidly across the block, she said.

Jackie said a man watching the blaze in the early hours of the morning grabbed a firefighter, telling him a woman lived in one of the rowhomes on fire.

“I commend Baltimore City, I do. The fire chief got right on it,” she said, adding that firefighters kept people calm.

Authorities said the fire was driven by strong winds this morning.

“Crews were really challenged with the speed at which the fire was literally walking down the block, as well as embers being blown up to about two blocks away,” Baltimore City Fire Chief James Wallace told WJZ.

Officials said the cause of the fire is under investigation.

Banner editor Carrie Mihalcik contributed to this report.