Trash Set Ablaze, Fire Marshals Investigating
Unknown vandals brazenly set the trash in front of a Jewish apartment building ablaze on Monday afternoon.
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Fire Breaks Out in Large Apartment Building
A fire broke out on the fifth and sixth floors of a large apartment building on Lefferts Avenue in Crown Heights.
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Fire Rips Through Chabad-Run Shul in Sea-Gate
The Jewish community of Sea-Gate, located on the Southwestern edge of Brooklyn, is in shock after a fire ripped through a century-old synagogue, led for the past 25 years by Chabad Shluchim to Sea-Gate Rabbi Chaim and Rivkah Brikman.
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Bus Set Ablaze Outside Public School
A yellow school bus was torched late Sunday night outside a public school in Crown Heights.
Fire Breaks Out at Crowded Pizzeria
A popular Crown Heights Pizzeria filled with customers sitting down for a post-Shabbos bite to eat was suddenly engulfed in smoke after a fire broke out in the kitchen.
Blaze Tears Through Apartment Building
A fire tore through a 4th floor apartment in a building on Carroll Street in Crown Heights. One firefighter was injured battling the blaze.
Fire Forces Evacuation of Oholei Torah Mesivta
A fire broke out Friday morning in the basement of building which houses Oholei Torah Mesivta and forced the evacuation of the entire building, interrupting morning studies and prayers.
Photos: Reb Yoel Farbrengs in Boro Park
Reb Yoel Kahan, the Rebbe’s head Chozer, led a Simchas Beis Hashoeva Farbrengen last night in Boro Park, which was hosted by Heichal Menachem and attended by dozens of locals.
Fire Injures Worker at Mobile Gas Station
A fire broke out at the Mobile gas station on the corner of Empire Blvd. and New York Ave. in Crown Heights, injuring one of the workers employed there.
Surveillance Camera Captures Bus Arson
CrownHeights.info has obtained surveillance footage that clearly captured the arson incident which occurred in front of Beis Rivkah Sunday evening, in which a school bus was set ablaze by a group of children.
School Bus Set Ablaze in a Suspected Arson
A school bus was set ablaze Sunday evening in what witnesses say was deliberately set by a group of children.
Elderly Woman Dies in 2-Alarm Blaze
An elderly and disabled woman was killed when a fast moving fire tore through her home on Fenimore Street.
Two Alarm Fire Destroys Notorious “Crack House”
A Lefferts Avenue house, known by neighbors as a notorious drug den, went up in flames Tuesday night when a fire broke out on the first floor and quickly spread to the second floor.
Jewish-Owned Commercial Kitchen Goes Up in Flames
Three industrial kosher kitchens were completely destroyed in a five-alarm fire that swept through a warehouse for hours near Kings County Hospital south of Crown Heights.
40 People Saved in ‘Mitzvah Tank Miracle’
A Chabad ‘Mitzvah tank’ in Israel went up in flames during a public reading of the Megillah on Purim, but miraculously, all those inside escape unharmed.
Truck Bursts into Flames in Chabad House Parking Lot
A pickup truck caught fire outside a Chabad Jewish community center in Yonkers, NY, last night.
Survivor Gives Meaning to Savior’s Firefighting Career
[Left to Right] Firefighter Joseph Scaramuzzino, Rabbi Zalman Feldman, firefighter Lieutenant Ralph Tufano and Rabbi Yehuda Friedman.
Fourteen years after saving the life a Lubavitcher teenager from a burning house in Crown Heights, now retired firefighter Joseph Scaramuzzino realized that his time with the FDNY meant something.
Amid Farbrengens Fire Breaks out in 770
A fire broke out early Thursday morning inside the ‘Gabboims Closet’ in 770, causing panic amid a number of small Yud Shvat Farbrengens that were still going on at that early hour. Police rule out terrorism.
Fire Erupts on 5th Floor of Apartment Building
A fire broke out this morning on the 5th floor of a Crown Heights apartment building, located at 560 Lefferts Ave. near the corner of Kingston Ave.
Unattended Menorah Sparks Home Fire
A fire broke out Motzai Shabbos in the basement of a Montgomery Street home. A neighbor said that it was likely caused by an unattended menorah.
Video: Dumpster Goes Up in Flames
A dumpster filled with construction debris went up in flames Friday afternoon on Carroll Street near Albany Avenue. Firefighters arrived within minutes and put the blaze out.
Manholes Explode, Con-Ed Still Working to Restore Power in Crown Heights
With the season’s first multi-day heat wave refusing to break, high electricity demand put a lot of stress on the system’s infrastructure, which caused manhole explosions all around Crown Heights.