A video of the meeting shows Teaneck Mayor Mike Pagan repeatedly asking Layla Graham, 32, to stop playing an alarm so the township council could conduct the "township's business."
The fire broke out just after midnight in the house on Palisades Avenue trapping three people in the basement, according to Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella.
A New Jersey man is now also accused of speeding in the moments leading up to a drunken crash that killed two passengers in the vehicle with him, according to authorities.