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.
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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’.
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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.
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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.
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GOLETA, CA — Fire investigators interviewed occupants and examined evidence before determining there was no malicious intent in connection with the blaze at UC Santa Barbara’s Chabad House, County Fire Capt. Eli Iskow said.
GOLETA, CA — A fire torched parts of the UCSB Chabad House yesterday, leaving the rabbi’s residence with extensive damage.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A fast moving fire tore through the basement of a Jewish home on Crown Street this afternoon and filled the entire house with thick smoke. The incident took place inside of 309 Crown Street across from Beis Rivkah High School at around 12:00pm.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A series of manhole explosions shook the vicinity of Eastern Parkway and Brooklyn Avenue and disrupting electricity and internet service. The explosions took place at around 3:30pm, filling the area with thick gray smoke, bringing residents out of their houses.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — At around 7:00pm Tuesday evening a fire broke out inside one of the apartments on the 5th floor of 763 Eastern Parkway, a six story semi-fireproof building which houses over 130 residential units and spans from Eastern Parkway all the way back to Lincoln Place.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A fire tore through a number of apartments on Shabbos afternoon. The incident took place inside of 617 Crown Street, which is between Troy and Albany, an apartment building with 46 residential units occupied by both Jewish and non-Jewish residents.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A fire destroyed two apartments and damaged others this morning forcing the evacuation of all its occupants. The fire broke out in the basement of 1625 President Street, an apartment building with 44 residential units located at the corner of Schenectady Avenue, and quickly extended into two apartments on the first floor, the fire broke out at around 6:45am.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – Thick smoke and the acrid smell of burning plastic and rubber filled Crown Street between New York and Nostrand Avenue at around 6:45pm. Firefighters responded to the rear of 309 Crown Street, the home of a Jewish family, where an abandoned car was ablaze.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Residents in the vicinity of Clove Road and Malbone Street were startled and scared when a series of explosions began going off at around 3:00pm today. Some thought it was gun shots, while others were so scared when the walls of their homes began shaking, they called 911.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A fire broke out earlier today at around 3:00pm in the upper floors of 740 Empire Boulevard, which is on the corner of Troy Avenue, a large building with 96 residential units. 911 received many calls from panicking residents who made their way to the roof to escape the heat and smoke.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — At around 12:00am last night a column of smoke was seen rising from the roof of 679 Montgomery Street, the large building on the corner of Kingston Avenue. People called 911 thinking that there was a fire in the building, which B”H turned out not to be the case.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – A short hour after Shabbos the residents in a home on Balfore Place called 911 after strong stench of gas filled the house. Firefighters responded and began investigating the odor.
After nearly a half an hour they managed to trace the odor to an electrical malfunction in the boiler of the house.
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CROWN HEIGTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – at around 12:30pm on Tuesday a fire broke out in a home on Carroll Street between Kingston and Brooklyn. FDNY responded within minutes and had the fire under control soon thereafter.
The apparent cause of the fire was a faulty electrical outlet.
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