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.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
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.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
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At first glance, the Moscowitzs’ home looks no different than any other of the town houses that line Bucktown’s quiet residential streets. But the home of Rabbi Yosef Moscowitz and his wife, Sara, is in its own way entirely distinct because it’s currently doubling as the neighborhood’s first Chabad center.
