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Computer Causes Fire in a CH Building

Crown Heights, Brooklyn — At around 1:00 in the afternoon today a fire broke out in an apartment on the first floor of 706 Eastern Parkway. The apartment was that of the superintended of the building who told CrownHeights.info that he was using his computer when smoke started coming out of it and before he knew it the whole room was engulfed in flames and smoke.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Residents in the building called everyone from 911 to Hatzalah and even Shomrim, and had firefighters respond within moments of the fire breaking out and within 9 minutes had all visible flames put out.

The building quickly filled with thick hot smoke which threw residents into panic and they were seen on the fire escapes trying to get out of the building. Fire Fighters, Hatzalah and Shomrim members climbed up the escapes in order to help those with kids and the elderly make their way down.

Firefighters then went to work on the walls and ceilings of the apartment in order to make sure there was no smoldering wood or anything else still aflame

706 Eastern Parkway is 150 ft x 90 ft, was built in 1935 and is not a fireproof building. It houses around 45 families.

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20 Comments

  • An out of towner

    And G-d bless the firefighters for shlepping out all that equipment.

  • 706 Tenant

    Thank you so much to Avi & Fraida Boaz for helping out so much. It was greatly appreciated.

  • SE

    Yingi Bistrisky is a Tzaddik.EVERYONE SHOULD LEARN FROM HIM A REAL mentsch and example for the shechunah and every where else

  • Menny

    Hey, Thats my causin on the firescape the kid with the hat and the little girl.

    hope it was ok.

  • john

    and i beileve it was a very very quick response from all the diff organizations investigation should be done in how the evacuation was done the inside the fire escapes the foot traffic how were the fire escape ladders how was the weight etc etc

  • chana bluma

    Avi Boas was amazing – he kept his cool and in a really professional way stepped in to help.His wife Fraida was helping with those that were rescued – and instead of a tragedy we just have exciting pictures.

  • A chosid

    Ness of the Rebbe 38 years ago and now

    The famous story of the 9 bochurim saved by the Rebbe from a horrific fire which trapped 3 bochurim in a station-wagon into which an 18-wheeler crashed, happened on this day, Ches Tammuz.

    Around midnight, a few hours before the crash of the station wagon, the Rebbe suddenly instructed to publish the landmark sicha (of Achron Shel Pesach 5729) about strengthening the shchuna and added a few passages about “noch a sraifo vert men reich” (riches follows a fire) because Rachmim follows Din. The next morning when Rabbi Groner told the Rebbe about the crash and fire, the Rebbe responded that he had them in mind when he wrote last night about a fire (that is followed by rachmim)!

    On Ches Tammuz this year, this Kuntres about the shchuna, with the hosofos quoting “kedoshay elyon” about Rachmim following a fire, saved people in a building in the shchuna which houses 40 families of anash.

    B’hashgocha Protis – the huge number on the Fire Chief’s van is 38! (possibly hinting to the ness of 38 years ago !).

  • trouble

    webby;
    why do you always take pictures (the few that you do) of FDNY EMS from behind ???

  • OutofTownerFrom LongAgo

    is that yingi really? still active in hatzoloh? my oh my I remember growing up he was active, very active (with his dad) and this was a looooong time ago, very long ;) Kol hakavod.

    Of course kol hakavod to all the hatzoloh members that give selfleslly and shomrim whom I hear last year were really “active” in ch. makes one want to move back to the old country ;)

    FDNY you guys were great back in the 60’s and 70’s and have only gotten better. All of you are full of heart. GOD should keep you all safe and sound :)

  • Glad I moved out of that dump!

    Turns out the fire killed the 300 rats living in the basement of 706.

  • who knows

    300 rats?????? r u serious???? thats nasty!
    anyway, a huge yasher koach to everyone that helped in this tragedy!!!
    gr8 pics webby!!!! u do a great job, keep it up!

  • used to live there

    The building is a sewer, and the landlord is a rat. What a shame taht building is teh best location in CH and they ran in into the ground.. If there was yoisher the communitty would get the building from teh fat cat that owns it but lives on Long Island. In williamsburgh they would know what to do with such a guy

  • Burim Djonbalaj

    that was my house no one was on the computer we were all doing the garbage