Erev Shabbos a fire broke out at 835 Lincoln Pl between New York Ave and Nostrand Ave on the first floor. FDNY got the call for heavy smoke in the area which was visible and smelled all the way to Kingston Ave and responded with 2 ladder trucks 4 engines and two battalion chiefs and had the fire out in under 11 minutes.
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At around 2:00am on Wednesday night resident on Montgomery between New York and Brooklyn noticed a strong smell of smoke and called 911. Firefighters arrived on scene and noticed smoke coming out of the house, they entered the house and quickly put out the fire and opened all the windows to ventilate the house.
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Sunday night an electrical transformer overheated and began malfunctioning causing a series of explosions and fires. It all began at around 1:00am when FDNY received a call about smoke and the smell of fire in the intersection of Empire and Troy, they arrived on scene and couldn’t find anything but moments later there was a large explosion in the transformer box underground sending flames up. Firefighters taped off the area and notified ConEd and left one engine on scene until their arrival.
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At around 12:00pm this afternoon a fire broke out in a home on Eastern Pkwy between New York and Nostrand. FDNY responded to the call and immediately began battling the fire, which was upgraded right away to a 2nd alarm and more units reasponded.
The fire was placed under control soon thereafter. Damage to the home was mostly to the top floor, which bystanders described as a burning Matzah Oven. The home does not belong to any Yidden.
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Wednesday morning at around 8:30am a truck delivering construction materials to a constructions site on Lefferts and New York burst into flames the cause of which was unknown. A passing Shomrim member called 911 and the Fire Department responded immediately and put out the fire.
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A track fire sent smoke billowing through a subway tunnel in Downtown Brooklyn during the evening rush yesterday, halting two subway trains carrying nearly 4,000 passengers, who had to be led to safety on the Manhattan Bridge.
At least 25 people received minor injuries, including 10 passengers and three firefighters who were treated at hospitals for smoke inhalation, the authorities said.
Subway and car traffic between Brooklyn and Manhattan was snarled for hours.
With just about 2 hours left to the fast, a fire ripped through the rear part of the first floor of 323 Crown St. between New York and Nostrand. According to the deputy chief on scene what apparently happened was the bedding in the rear bedroom on the first floor had somehow caught fire and burnt itself out.
FDNY arrived on scene moments after the initial fire started and put out all the remnants of the fire. For this fire 2 ladder trucks and 4 pump trucks responded [all hands – 10-75], one Jewish woman who was on the second floor when the fire broke out was treated for smoke inhalation. B”H there was no other injuries.
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At around 2:05pm yesterday (Tuesday) people observed smoke coming out of a home on Montgomery Street between Kingston and Albany and immediately called 911. FDNY responded with 4 trucks and 2 ladder trucks and began battling a fire in the second floor kitchen where the fire apparently started.
About 20 minutes after FDNY arrived on scene they had subdued the fire and confirmed it being out. One fire fighter suffered a light injury to his knee and was taken by EMS to a local hospital. This fire comes as the outside temperature reached a scorching 103 degrees and fire personnel weren’t taking any chances of the fire spreading.
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The alarm system is used by the New York City fire department and many others across the country to signal how many firefighters and vehicles are needed, either to battle a blaze or to relieve workers throughout the fight.
In New York, the first alarm, usually called “all hands,” requires about 12 units, or 60 firefighters.
A five-alarm fire demands roughly 44 units, or 200 firefighters. And a 10-alarm fire usually means about 70 units, or 350 firefighters, are dispatched. There are a variety of types of units, including ladder companies and engine companies.
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Plumes of smoke were visible this morning here in Crown Heights along with the strong smell of smoke which you can still smell now. All this was due to this fire in Greenpoint, which has gone up to a 10th alarm, the largest ever in a decade, other then the 9-11 attacks.
Greenpoint, Broooklyn — A warehouse fire on the East River in Brooklyn on Tuesday sent plumes of thick black smoke over the city that could be seen for miles, as firefighters battled it for hours from land and boats. Eight firefighters suffered minor injuries.
Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta called it the largest fire in the city in more than a decade, excluding the World Trade Center attack, and said the cause was suspicious.
Flames enveloped the complex of seven vacant warehouses, blocking out the morning light and filling the Greenpoint neighborhood with acrid smoke, and collapsing several building walls.
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An early morning fire on Shabbos has left dozens homeless and sent several firefighters to the hospital. An early morning fire on Shabbos has left dozens homeless and sent several firefighters to the hospital.
The fire broke out just after 2 a.m. in a six-story apartment building on Eastern Parkway and Rochester Avenue in Crown Heights. It took nearly 200 firefighters over two hours to get the fire under control, but not before it destroyed 14 apartments.
The Red Cross says it’s providing shelter to over a dozen families.
Five firefighters were treated at Brookdale Hospital for minor injuries.
Investigators say they believe the fire started in a shaft and then made its way to an attic, but the cause remains under investigation.
Fire is burned through an apartment building in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.Fire is burned through an apartment building in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.
Newscopter Seven was live over the scene.
The fire broke out on the top floor of 270 Troy Avenue [between Lincoln Pl. and St. Johns Pl.] just after 6:15 a.m. Flames were initially reported to be out the windows of the third floor.
The fire department arrived very quickly and knocked down the flames.
One firefighter was being treated for minor burns to the neck. Two others were also injured.The cause is under investigation.
At around 6:00pm on Friday the automatic fire alarm went off calling the Fire Dept. down for a fire in the Kitchen Area, since the hall is a school as well (Bnos Menachem) an “all hands” was call and nearly 30 different Fire Trucks showed up.
The fire had been put out by the buildings sprinkler system and all that was left was a lot of smoke in the kitchen, the Fire Chief called the fire a suspicious fire due to the fact that that part of the kitchen is labeled ‘pantry’ but is right above the stoves in the ‘Fleishig Kitchen’, the final on the fire is that it seems to have been due to a fault in some of the electrical wiring.
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Firefighters battled a heavy fire on the top floor of a four-story apartment building in Brooklyn Tuesday morning.
The three-alarm fire at 1299 Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights section was reported at 7:52 a.m., said Fire Department spokesman David Billig.
“There’s a very heavy volume of fire on the top floor,” said Billig.
Monday Morning at 6:50am a Tractor Trailer burst into flames, this took place in the parking lot of the Associated Supermarket on Nostrand Ave. between Montgomery and Empire, this parking extends right alongside Malbone St. where all of the houses there are home to Jewish families.
FDNY took a few minutes to respond and put out the flames, which had left a cloud of thick black smoke in the air. The cause of this fire in unknown and is still under investigation. As one of the commenter’s said on the previous fire ‘Der Shtut Brent’ well after this one…
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10 minutes before Shabbos was over the sound of sirens filled the air, and fire trucks were seen rushing from all directions to the scene of a massive fire on Brooklyn Ave. and Rutland Rd. what started out as a smoke condition quickly turned into a Mayday then a Second Alarm Then immediately a Third Alarm.
A fire fighter that was inside checking out the smoke condition got trapped on the second floor and called a Mayday and was then forced to jump, being as high that it was, they positioned the bucket ladder and the fire fighter jumped into it getting lightly injured, numerous other firefighters were injured from smoke inhalation. The fire was particularly hard to put out, due to the fact that it was so badly embedded in the building, time and time again the fire kept coming back from different parts. The fire lasted for over an hour.
Well over 40 Fire Trucks and Ladders responded with even more Ambulances and Special Services Vehicles.
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One of the ‘Major Ambulette’ vans was dropping off a patient today at the building on the corner of Montgomery and Kingston, when the driver noticed smoke coming out of his dashboard. He immediately exited the van and poured water into the air vent in attempt to stop whatever was happening. A minute later the window fogged up and flames began coming out of the dashboard and engine bay quickly engulfing the entire van in flames, and from the heat of the fire the driver side airbag exploded.
Shomrim members had arrived immediately on scene and quickly instructed bystanders to stay back and away from the van, and seconds later from the intensity of the flames, the windows exploded in a shower of hot glass where bystanders were standing just moments earlier. Also from the heat the headlights and tail lights of the cars parked next to this van had melted! FDNY arrived 3 minutes after the call to 911 and put the fire out, the roof was a problem since its made of fiber glass it absorbs flames therefore they had to tear up the entire roof to make sure there was no fire there. Debris from the fire and fiberglass roof littered the street and parked call all around the van.
The driver who is 50 and has been working for ‘Major Ambulette’ which operates out of Staten Island, for 2 years said that there were no known issues with the van and it had operated well, until today.
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