A 2 Alarm Blaze Tears Through The Night

As we have reported yesterday about the fire on Kingston and Lefferts, well it recurred, at 12:50am FDNY arrived at the building and immediately upgraded that fire to a 2nd alarm due to the windy conditions and the fact that it had just burned about 7 hours earlier making it more susceptible to burning, which is what it did, in a matter of a few short minutes the fire spread across the roof of 3 of the apartments, displacing 2 families and further damaging the vacant apartment.

Many Trucks and Ladders responded to the fire from all across Brooklyn, including various volunteer aid groups.

The fire was subdued im a matter of 20 minutes, but wasn’t completely put out for nearly 2 hours, only then were fire fighters sure the fire was out. Due to the nature of this fire being a reoccurring one makes it a suspicious circumstances so the fire marshals were called in to investigate what had caused this blaze.

A total of 4 fire men were injured with various inhalation and trauma injuries, 2 of which were from the same fire company.

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Fire on Kingston and Lefferts

At around 2:45 this afternoon [Sunday] a fire broke out in the apartment building on the corner of Kingston and Lefferts in a vacant apartment. The cause of the fire was due to electrical wires that went bad in the ceiling of the top floor apartment. Numerous fire companies were called in to assist in battling the blaze which was extremely hard to contain do to its nature and the amount of soot and debris that came out of the charred ceiling, and over 10 firefighters were treated for various inhalation injuries.

After around 50 minutes they finally managed to completely put out the fire. The building is owned by a Lubavitcher in Crown Heights, but all of its inhabitants are non Jew’s.

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3 Alarm Fire Rips Through The Night

Last night [Motzoai Shabbos] at around 10:00pm the streets of crown Heights were filled with the sound of nearly 50 Fire Engines and Ambulances rushing to Utica and Carroll where the top floor of a building was ablaze with people trapped on the floor. Ladder Trucks immediately put up their ladders and quickly cut out a hole in the roof and began evacuating people through there.

The entire area was blocked off by the sheer amount of Fire and EMS vehicles that had responded, snarling traffic for well over 2 hours, the fire which was not visible from the street burned with great intensity causing a lot of damage to the building, gutting 3 apartments. Outside firefighters were seen spreading salt where puddles were forming from the hoses they were using to subdue the fire, temperatures were under 10° freezing water creating hazardous conditions on the sidewalks and the street.

Finally the fire was subdued and the local battalion chief made a statement to the press stating that thank g-d no civilians were injured, though 7 firefighters sustained minor smoke inhalation related injuries, and the cause of the fire has yet to be determined.

Fire on Utica Ave. & Carroll St.

At around 11:00pm last night [Tuesday] a fire broke out in an apartment on the 4th floor of a building on the corner of Utica & Carroll, there was no one in the apartment when the fire broke out. Initial reports have the fire tagged as “suspicious” but the cause of it is still unknown. This building is owned by a Lubavitcher from Crown Heights.

FDNY’s response time was really good, with 5 trucks and a lot of ambulances on standby just incase of injuries, they managed to limit the fire damage to only one apartment, but the smoke and water damage can not be contained and residents from neighboring apartments were forced out of their homes for the night.

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Fire guts house on Lincoln Place

Today [Sunday] at around 12:30pm a fire broke out in a house on Lincoln Pl. between Kingston & Albany. The fire quickly spread throughout the entire house, making it particularly difficult for FDNY to put it out without much damage.

The house belonging the a non Jewish family is attached to a house owned and occupied by Jews, which sustained damage from the fire and from the fire department, who tore up the walls to make sure that the fire was completely out.

There was an enormous response, over 12 FDNY trucks, ambulance’s and even an ancient “cherry picker” type truck responded. It appeared from the fire crews on scene that the fire initially started due to faulty wiring in an electrical space heater.

This would be a proper time to warn all of our readers to take extra caution with space heaters. Do not to leave any clothes, towels etc.. to dry next to the heater, and It would be wise to turn the heater off when leaving the house.

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Suspected Gas Leak Draws Large Rescue Attention

The smell of gas at 706 Lefferts Avenue, the apartment building on the corner of Lefferts and Troy Avenues, brought a virtual army of emergency vehicles to the scene around 11:30 Tuesday night, as police and fire department units searched for a possible gas leak. The normally quiet street was clogged with fire trucks and vehicles from the police department’s Emergency Services Unit (ESU), whose personnel braved bitter cold to get the job done.

According to Sergeant DeCardio of the ESU, the leak was emanating from an apartment that seemed empty, and the fire department shut off the gas to prevent explosion. The massive emergency response was standard procedure, he explained, because “you don’t play around with gas.”

The numerous police and fire units were able to leave when the gas company, Keyspan, arrived and undertook repairs. Yet they were back just twenty minutes later, this time with a helicopter as well—only to leave again after about ten minutes.

Utility Fire in 770 Lefferts

770 Lefferts Avenue, the condominium development between Troy and Schenectady Avenues, emptied out early Morning morning as a smoky fire in a utility room brought 10 fire trucks to the street outside.

Overheating extension cords were the cause of the blaze, which caused minor damage to the closet-sized ground floor room housing water pipes for the building, said Deputy Chief Jakubowski of the New York City Fire Department. The alarm came in shortly after 10:00 a.m., said the official, and, although the situation was resolved within the brief space of approximately half an hour, a pile of blackened debris and the pried-off utility room door bore silent witness to what had occurred.

FBI Investigates Van Fire At Chabad House

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Federal investigators have been called in to find out who torched a van outside a North shore synagogue over the weekend.

The van was parked in the driveway of the Chabad Lubavitch of the North Shore in Swampscott. Police say it was set on fire Saturday.

Fire in the Ladies Section of 770

On the first night of Rosh Hashanah many girls from out-of-town lit candles in 770 on the steps that are located in the middle of the women’s section of the shul. During Mariv the cleaning lady of the shul was seen spraying water at something. Suddenly the entire women’s section of Eastern Parkway was trying to get out of the doors at once, everyone yelling “FIRE! FIRE!”

After the fire was put out there were approximately 30 candles still lit. The cleaning lady did not know what to do. She asked one of the women if she should let them stay lit, but the women immediately replied that they should be put out at once. Boruch Hashem there was no damage or injuries.