Crown Heights, Brooklyn — At around 10:40 this morning a fire broke out in the vacant Colel Building on Union Street. Firefighters arrived at 1451-1453 Union St within moments of the call and began battling the fire and placing it under control soon thereafter.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn — At around 1:00 in the afternoon today a fire broke out in an apartment on the first floor of 706 Eastern Parkway. The apartment was that of the superintended of the building who told CrownHeights.info that he was using his computer when smoke started coming out of it and before he knew it the whole room was engulfed in flames and smoke.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Today, Tuesday, at about 1:30 in the afternoon, a manhole exploded on Kingston Ave [between President and Union St]. An underground electrical circuit overheated apparently and sent flames and smoke into the air.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn – In an early morning fire a bodega and an apartment were completely destroyed and what firefighters are calling a suspicious fire. The fire broke out at around 7:20am in 690 E New York Ave which is on the corner of Albany, FDNY arrived on scene within moments and began battling the fire and the fire was subdued shortly thereafter.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn — After battling and successfully putting out the initial blaze earlier yesterday, firefighter were called back as the temporary repair crews found some parts of the ceiling still smoldering but not ablaze.
At around 11:15pm firefighters went back in to the house in order to put out the recurrence. After a short 15 minutes it was deemed completely put out and repair crews went back to work.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn – At 7:45 this evening a fire broke out in the second floor of a Jewish home on Crown St. The incident began in a section of damaged wiring in the ceiling which caused a light bulb to suddenly exploded and instantly set fire to everything around it.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn — A fire broke out today at around 12:30pm in the building, 1650 President St. between Utica and Schenectady. This comes just a short five days after the blaze that broke out on the second floor, this past Motzoai Shabbos.
This incident took place in an apartment in the rear of the building on the first floor, the fire took place in one of the bedrooms. Firefighters put out the flames, but the fire caused significant damage. B”H there was no injuries.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn – At around 4:50am this morning a fire broke out at 362 New York Ave. between Carroll and President, on the second floor of the two family house. The first floor housed a Kloister and the second floor was the living quarters. All resident made their way out of the burning house without sustaining any injuries.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn – At around 10:45pm, Motzoai Shabbos a fire broke out in a Jewish apartment building. The incident took place on the second floor of 1650 President St. between Utica and Schenectady, many residents were forced to evacuate due to heavy smoke conditions in the building.
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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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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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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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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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