3 Alarm Fire Rips Through The Night

Last night [Motzoai Shabbos] at around 10:00pm the streets of crown Heights were filled with the sound of nearly 50 Fire Engines and Ambulances rushing to Utica and Carroll where the top floor of a building was ablaze with people trapped on the floor. Ladder Trucks immediately put up their ladders and quickly cut out a hole in the roof and began evacuating people through there.

The entire area was blocked off by the sheer amount of Fire and EMS vehicles that had responded, snarling traffic for well over 2 hours, the fire which was not visible from the street burned with great intensity causing a lot of damage to the building, gutting 3 apartments. Outside firefighters were seen spreading salt where puddles were forming from the hoses they were using to subdue the fire, temperatures were under 10° freezing water creating hazardous conditions on the sidewalks and the street.

Finally the fire was subdued and the local battalion chief made a statement to the press stating that thank g-d no civilians were injured, though 7 firefighters sustained minor smoke inhalation related injuries, and the cause of the fire has yet to be determined.