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.
Diel
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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havemeyer
another fire as we speak at 451 kingston empire/lerfferts 2 alarm using all hands
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The Rieber Family
We were awoken before 1am for the next round of the fire. We watched it from our back windows and porch. It was very scary to wake up to such a sight. We thought at first someone was smashing glass in our backyard. You couldn’t imagine the sight before our eyes of the flames coming out of the roof of the bldg in our backyard. Not to mention that it was the same bldg from the afternoon. We hope all the firefighters were safe and thank them for being there to help with what they do.
Viewer
Wow! Webby did you actually go up to the roof to take the pictures?? That’s dedication! Thank you, and thanks to the fire department for their hard work.
the person who braught u to the roof
nice pics
anonomous
What’s up with the 2 girls snapping pictures with huge smiles on their faces like it’s a show???!! We’re talking about pples lives? WHat if it was their apt or house C"v and I was standing outside snapping pictures and smiling…
J Crisp
Fab pics, my grandson is one of the fire fighters atthe apartmenent bldg. fire. I’m in Ca. nice to keep up with him this way and see the good he is doing