Squatters Start Fire to Keep Warm in Eastern Pkwy Home

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Flames lit up the night and smoke billowed out of the boarded up windows of a vacant home one Eastern Parkway. The fire broke out at around 3:30am inside of 1154 Eastern Parkway which is three family home off the corner of Utica Avenue, and there were reports of people trapped on the second floor.

FDNY responded and went to work on putting out the blaze. After a short while the fire was put out and the source of the fire wasn’t immediately but it appeared that a few squatters started the fire in attempt to stay warm from the unusually cold night.

This marks the second fire in a few months in the same house, where squatters started a fire in the basement of the house.

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