ATLANTIC CITY -- A motel where an alligator was found in a pool and police made a drug bust over the summer caught fire for the second time in recent weeks early Monday, officials said.

No one was injured in a suspicious blaze that broke out at the vacant Bayview Inn & Suites, according to Atlantic City Fire Chief Scott Evans.

Firefighters were called to the North Albany Avenue property at 12:33 a.m., Evans said. When they arrived, flames were pouring from a second-floor unit next to stairway.

Firefighters opened up the roof and were able to bring the fire under control by about 1:40 a.m, Evans said.

Evans noted that homeless people have been known to squat in the motel, which is in the process of being boarded up. The property has no electricity or gas.

No one was in the area of the motel when firefighters arrived, Evans said.

Animal control workers removed a 3-foot alligator found in the outdoor swimming pool on Aug. 15. The same day, police also recovered cash, drugs and Airsoft guns. They also found 33 men, women and children living at the motel after searching 80 rooms at the vacant property, which was damaged during Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

Four days later, a suspicious fire damaged one unit and left others with smoke and water damage.

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