Fire Tears thru the ‘Chabad Israeli Center’ in S.I.

Staten Island, NY — This past Shabbos a fire ripped thru the ‘Chabad Israeli Center’ in Staten Island. The incident took place on Friday night at around 1:30am when Rabbi Nachman Segal the director of the center awoke to the strong smell of smoke, he quickly woke his sleeping family and with the help of his neighbor they took the two Sifrai Torahs out of the house.

Rabbi Segal told CrownHeights.info that “the house all of a sudden filled up with flames, I woke my family and with the help of the non-jewish neighbor we got the two Sifrai Torahs out” he also said “it was a miracle that thank g-d nobody was hurt”.

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Fire on Schenectady Avenue

Last week Wednesday at around 10:00am a fire broke out on the first floor of 455 Schenectady Ave, on the corner of Lefferts Ave. The fire was confined to one room of the apartment and was quickly put out by FDNY.

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Fuel Explosion in a Mechanic Shop

At around 9:10 this morning there was an explosion in a Mechanic shop on Troy Ave between East New York and Lefferts, the area quickly filled with smoke and flames were visible from inside the shop. FDNY arrived on scene only moments after the fire broke out and quickly raised the fire to a 2nd alarm, brining a lot more firefighters and EMS workers to the scene.

It took around 30 minutes to completely subdue the fire during which the school Bnos Menachem who is adjacent to the rear of the mechanic shop began filling with smoke. Numerous Shomrim members who were on scene quickly evacuated the school in an orderly fashion. Some children were seen in their Purim costumes.

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Fire on Lincoln Place

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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Fire in a House on Montgomery St.

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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2 Alarm Fire in a Home on Eastern Pkwy

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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Truck Burst into Flames

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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Firefighters Battle Brooklyn Warehouse Blaze

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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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Fire in the Razag Ballroom

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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And The Fires Just Dont Stop Burning!

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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.