At around 2:05pm yesterday (Tuesday) people observed smoke coming out of a home on Montgomery Street between Kingston and Albany and immediately called 911. FDNY responded with 4 trucks and 2 ladder trucks and began battling a fire in the second floor kitchen where the fire apparently started.
About 20 minutes after FDNY arrived on scene they had subdued the fire and confirmed it being out. One fire fighter suffered a light injury to his knee and was taken by EMS to a local hospital. This fire comes as the outside temperature reached a scorching 103 degrees and fire personnel weren’t taking any chances of the fire spreading.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Fire in a Jewish Home
At around 2:05pm yesterday (Tuesday) people observed smoke coming out of a home on Montgomery Street between Kingston and Albany and immediately called 911. FDNY responded with 4 trucks and 2 ladder trucks and began battling a fire in the second floor kitchen where the fire apparently started.
About 20 minutes after FDNY arrived on scene they had subdued the fire and confirmed it being out. One fire fighter suffered a light injury to his knee and was taken by EMS to a local hospital. This fire comes as the outside temperature reached a scorching 103 degrees and fire personnel weren’t taking any chances of the fire spreading.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
stam
how do the firefighters wear the turnout gear and not pass out?? and believe it or not, FDNY EMS employees will have to start wearing turnout gear too very soon. it’s ridiculous!
mya
It looks fine to me BARUCH HASHEM …
AMAISING pic.
CONCERNED!
This is why our FDNY Firemen are required to be in top physical shape! They must work under extreme conditions while wearing as well as carrying very heavy gear regardless of weather conditions! Just imagine what it is like to do their work when it is 103F!!!
We are lucky to have such dedicated Firemen! Thank you also to our EMS Volunteers who stand by, to render medical aid to the Firemen if they require it!
Ellie
Which idiot could say ”it looks fine to me” when part of another Yid’s home is burnt to ashes – it may look fine from the outside…. but perhaps they do not realize that LOOKS are not everything….. I hope that person is not taught a lesson or too about Penimius and consideration through hardship, but through being blessed with a small ration of intellegence !!
BrookAve
Ellie: Why are you being so hard on that comment? There was no visable roof damage and it looks like one window needs to be replaced. About the interior…Perhaps that tired kitchen needed to be remodeled. May I suggest a double applianced granite counter with sub zero. There, I turned a negative into a positive..Source..Our Rebbe.
Friend of Family
This fire destroyed their home INSIDE.
The family cannot live there for at least 6 MONTHS!!!
They need a 3-bedroomed decent apartment immediately as at the moment, they’re all split up & 2 kids are coming home today & Monday.
Please post if you know of anything.
PS…BrookAve…your sarcasm is usually amusing. Here it’s not. Under the circs, please stop with the smug comments about tired kitchens etc. Anyone who’s had a fire understands the devastation it causes to family life. The ONLY "positive" is that B"H nobody was hurt.
Thanks to all who care.
Disgusted
My daughter suggests that BrookAve should pay for this fancy kitchen seeing as how he/she is so full of great ideas.
Put your money where your mouth is!!
Jerk.
witness
the firemen put out the fire but they were acting very rude b/c there was a misunderstanding that somebody was trying to run back in when in fact all he wanted to do was give the firemen a key to the locked area on the second floor then a couple of minutes later the firemen tried getting into the house next door by breaking the door so the owner started screaming that she had the key but the firemen IGNORED her it was only until 5-6 people started screaming at a officer who was just watchibg what was happening that they used the key the problem here is that they didnt have a fireman or policeman to deal as liason between the emergency services and the people which in this case nothing happened b"h but if someone was trapped inside ch"v then time would be wasted breaking doorrs instead of asking for the key and getting right in
a concerned neighber
you insernsitive #$%$&* ‘s with your flippant suggestions of granite countertops. Your " just think of this Sicha & all will be fine " approach minimizes the very real suffering of these people & subverts the Rebbe’s desire as to the appropriate response to something like this
The reality is that in 15 minutes a very strong & hot fire destroyed the kitchen & rendered the diningroom uninhabitable. Although you can’t see it from outside , between fire and water the home & most possesions have been destroyed or damaged beyond repair
TROUBLE
THE NEW EMS TURN OUT GEAR IS HORRIBLE
PERSONEL ARE DROPPING LIKE FLIES
to BrookAve- how could you be so cold?
Regarding damage, I heard that the entire kitchen was destroyed, and since the firemen broke open the roof, this week’s rain ruined anything else.
And as for remodeling the kitchen! Don’t be so callous with other people’s property, or agmas nefesh – how could you!?!
Hasn’t this family – and all of klal Yisroel – suffered enough? Maybe if we hurt for each other and had rachmonus, instead of brushing it off, Hashem would have some rachmonus on us
BrookAve
To the Holy forum: I am sorry that I offended anyone. I wish the family that was displaced a speedy turn around. Lets hear good news from Eretz Yisroel during these 3 weeks and upcoming 9 days. Shabbos Mvorchim we must say Tehillim mit hartz und Farbreng!