Early Morning Fire Destroys Apartments
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A fast moving fire broke out this morning in an apartment building. The incident began at 9:00am on the fourth floor of 570 Lefferts Avenue near the corner of Kingston Avenue.
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Fire in a Multi Family Home on Eastern Pkwy
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A fire broke out this afternoon in a multi family home on Eastern Parkway. The incident took palace at 741 Eastern Parkway at around 11:45am, where fire broke out on the ground floor.
Rubbish Fire in a Basement
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A fire broke out this afternoon in a basement of two adjoining stores on Utica Avenue and President Street. The fire started in the storage area and was not deemed suspicious; firefighters had the blaze out in less than 15 minutes.
Des Moines Register
Photos by Laurel and Dean Ohloff
POSTVILLE, IA — A large fire in the eastern Iowa town of Postville devoured a downtown bakery today and displaced at least 13 people who lived in upstairs apartments, an eyewitness said.
Fire Destroys Bakery, Upstairs Apartments in Postville
Des Moines Register
Photos by Laurel and Dean Ohloff
POSTVILLE, IA — A large fire in the eastern Iowa town of Postville devoured a downtown bakery today and displaced at least 13 people who lived in upstairs apartments, an eyewitness said.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Another set of manholes exploded this afternoon, this time on Kingston Avenue and President Street. With the hotter summer days the demand for more air conditioning seems to be taxing on the ConEdison electricity grid, causing numerous failures around the city.
More Manhole Fires in Crown Heights
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Another set of manholes exploded this afternoon, this time on Kingston Avenue and President Street. With the hotter summer days the demand for more air conditioning seems to be taxing on the ConEdison electricity grid, causing numerous failures around the city.
Manholes Explode Leaving Residents without Electricity Overnight
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A series of manhole explosions rocked Kingston Avenue between Empire Boulevard and Lefferts Avenue last night, knocking out power to a number of buildings and leaving behind the arcid smell of burnt copper and rubber.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A fire broke out this afternoon in a small apartment building on Nostrand Avenue and Lincoln Road; prompting a large response of firefighters and rescue personal.
Fire Prompts Large FD Response
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A fire broke out this afternoon in a small apartment building on Nostrand Avenue and Lincoln Road; prompting a large response of firefighters and rescue personal.
Fire in a Vacant Apartment on Rochester Avenue
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A fire broke out this afternoon in a vacant apartment on the 4th floor of an apartment building on Rochester Avenue and President Street.
Car Burst into Flames on Eastern Pkwy
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Later afternoon Friday a car driving on Troy Ave and Easern Pkwy burst into flames. The incident happened as the vehicle, driven by a Black male was coming up onto the intersection of Eastern Pkwy from Troy Ave. He saw smoke coming out of his hood, and quickly pulled over and called 911.
Squatters Start Fire to Keep Warm in Eastern Pkwy Home
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Flames lit up the night and smoke billowed out of the boarded up windows of a vacant home one Eastern Parkway. The fire broke out at around 3:30am inside of 1154 Eastern Parkway which is three family home off the corner of Utica Avenue, and there were reports of people trapped on the second floor.
Fire on St. Johns Place and Troy Avenue
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – Last night, Monday, a fire broke out in an apartment on St. Johns Place, just a block away from the local firehouse from which they responded and had the fire under control within minutes.
Fire Destroys Lubavitcher Home on Carlton Avenue
MONTREAL, Canada [CHI] — Earlier today, Friday at around 12:00pm, a fire broke out in the top floor of a duplex condo housing a Lubavitcher family on Carlton Avenue in Montreal.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
LONDON, England [CHI] – The Lubavitch Mikvah in London, under the directorship of Rabbi Levi Sudak, went up in flames this afternoon, after a fire broke out due to an electrical short. The fire is reported to have done extensive damage to the facility along with the Chabad Houses storage shed.
More pictures in the Extended Article. (col.org.il)
Chabad Mikvah in London Goes up in Flames
LONDON, England [CHI] – The Lubavitch Mikvah in London, under the directorship of Rabbi Levi Sudak, went up in flames this afternoon, after a fire broke out due to an electrical short. The fire is reported to have done extensive damage to the facility along with the Chabad Houses storage shed.
More pictures in the Extended Article. (col.org.il)
Fire in a Jewish Home on Carroll Street
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A fire broke out in a Jewish home on Carroll Street this morning. The incident took place in 1340 Carroll, between Kingston and Brooklyn at around 10:00am.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Second Alarm Fire Destroys President Street House
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A fast moving fire tore through a home on President Street at around 11:00pm last night, Sunday. Many of the occupants were forced to jump from the windows to escape the flames. The fire quickly spread to all floors in the house and forced FDNY to elevate the fire to a ‘two alarm fire’.
More pictures and a video in the Extended Article.
Suspicious Fire in a Vacant Apartment
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] – Friday afternoon at around 2pm, a fire was started in an empty apartment. Located on the 4th floor of 1622 President Street, a Jewish owned building, on the corner of Schenectady Avenue. The apartment building has 46 residential units.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Video of FDNY working inside of the School.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — An electrical fire broke out in the ceiling of a home on Eastern Parkway. The incident took place at around 9:00pm on Motzoai Shabbos inside of 821 Eastern Parkway between Kingston and Albany on the third floor.
The father of the household first noticed the fire while he was exercising when he smelled the acrid smell of smoke and quickly evacuated the entire house and called 911. FDNY arrived as flames and thick smoke was pouring out of the ceiling of the house and the quickly went to work on dousing the fire.
More in the Extended Article.
Fire Displaces Large Jewish Family Last Night
Video of FDNY working inside of the School.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — An electrical fire broke out in the ceiling of a home on Eastern Parkway. The incident took place at around 9:00pm on Motzoai Shabbos inside of 821 Eastern Parkway between Kingston and Albany on the third floor.
The father of the household first noticed the fire while he was exercising when he smelled the acrid smell of smoke and quickly evacuated the entire house and called 911. FDNY arrived as flames and thick smoke was pouring out of the ceiling of the house and the quickly went to work on dousing the fire.
More in the Extended Article.
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