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Fire Tears up Bodega and Apartment

Crown Heights, Brooklyn – In an early morning fire a bodega and an apartment were completely destroyed and what firefighters are calling a suspicious fire. The fire broke out at around 7:20am in 690 E New York Ave which is on the corner of Albany, FDNY arrived on scene within moments and began battling the fire and the fire was subdued shortly thereafter.

More picutres in the Extended Article. (Thanks to Shmuli Evers for contributing some of his pictures to this gallery)

The fire broke out from the first floor which houses the bodega, all of the occupants got out in time while the apartment, which was also severely damaged was empty at the time. Fire marshals were requested to investigate the cause of the fire.

There were three minor injuries to firefighters but thank g-d none of them were life threatening, there were no injuries to any civilians.

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12 Comments

  • Anonymous

    To naive,

    A bodega is a small grocery store, sometimes combined with a wineshop, in certain Hispanic communities.

    -Techie

  • great pics

    When I heard all the fire trucks this mornong, I said to myself, “I must check out crownheights.info to see what and where it happened”! Thanks for the info and pics.

  • great pics

    When I heard all the fire trucks this mornong, I said to myself, “I must check out crownheights.info to see what and where it happened”! Thanks for the info and pics.

  • Mendel Fitzhume

    Thank you to our FDNY for responding so quickly and always protecting lives and property!

  • chaim

    to all the building belongs to a jew
    the apartment was being rented
    to some lubavithers who B”h
    were not there during the fire

  • great pics wrote:

    When I heard all the fire trucks this mornong, I said to myself, “I must check out crownheights.info to see what and where it happened”! Thanks for the info and pics.

  • crown & albany

    These firemen are the best. They really do a great job.

    I smelled smoke & heard the sirens…B”H no one was in there. Scary.

  • gregory marino

    as a retired fireman…it brought back memories…great job guys