NYC Blaze Called Biggest Since WTC Attack -- in Brooklyn
I am not sure exactly where I should've post this as its in Greenpoint, but I figured people would be interested....
NEW YORK - An eight-alarm blaze in a vacant warehouse complex Tuesday sent plumes of thick black smoke over the city, and eight firefighters were injured.
Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta called the Brooklyn blaze the largest fire in the city in more than a decade, excluding the World Trade Center attack.
Some 70 Fire Department units and 350 firefighters battled the blaze and two marine units sprayed water on the flames from the East River. More than 6 million gallons of water were poured on the blaze, Scoppetta said.
The fire, which officials described as suspicious, was still not under control by noon, more than six hours after it erupted.
The seven vacant warehouses were fully engulfed in flames when the first units arrived.
Two firefighters were taken to a nearby hospital and the others were treated at the scene, Scoppetta said.
The warehouse complex is officially unoccupied, though it was unclear whether squatters were living there, fire officials said. It was not clear what was inside the warehouses, but Scoppetta said bales of cloth burned in one of the buildings.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060502/ap_on_re_us/warehouse_fire
NEW YORK - An eight-alarm blaze in a vacant warehouse complex Tuesday sent plumes of thick black smoke over the city, and eight firefighters were injured.
Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta called the Brooklyn blaze the largest fire in the city in more than a decade, excluding the World Trade Center attack.
Some 70 Fire Department units and 350 firefighters battled the blaze and two marine units sprayed water on the flames from the East River. More than 6 million gallons of water were poured on the blaze, Scoppetta said.
The fire, which officials described as suspicious, was still not under control by noon, more than six hours after it erupted.
The seven vacant warehouses were fully engulfed in flames when the first units arrived.
Two firefighters were taken to a nearby hospital and the others were treated at the scene, Scoppetta said.
The warehouse complex is officially unoccupied, though it was unclear whether squatters were living there, fire officials said. It was not clear what was inside the warehouses, but Scoppetta said bales of cloth burned in one of the buildings.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060502/ap_on_re_us/warehouse_fire
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Subject: Re: NYC Blaze Called Biggest Since WTC Attack -- in Brooklyn
jaha127 wrote: I am not sure exactly where I should've post this as its in Greenpoint, but I figured people would be interested....
How did I not hear about this??? I swear news isn't news in this city the day after...
NEW YORK - An eight-alarm blaze in a vacant warehouse complex Tuesday sent plumes of thick black smoke over the city, and eight firefighters were injured.
Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta called the Brooklyn blaze the largest fire in the city in more than a decade, excluding the World Trade Center attack.
Some 70 Fire Department units and 350 firefighters battled the blaze and two marine units sprayed water on the flames from the East River. More than 6 million gallons of water were poured on the blaze, Scoppetta said.
The fire, which officials described as suspicious, was still not under control by noon, more than six hours after it erupted.
The seven vacant warehouses were fully engulfed in flames when the first units arrived.
Two firefighters were taken to a nearby hospital and the others were treated at the scene, Scoppetta said.
The warehouse complex is officially unoccupied, though it was unclear whether squatters were living there, fire officials said. It was not clear what was inside the warehouses, but Scoppetta said bales of cloth burned in one of the buildings.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060502/ap_on_re_us/warehouse_fire -
its on Yahoo!'s top stories and then its on the Daily News "Breaking News" part of the website.
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Subject: Re: NYC Blaze Called Biggest Since WTC Attack -- in Brooklyn
How did I not hear about this??? I swear news isn't news in this city the day after...
And 1010wins, and NY1 and NBC and ABC (I heard anbout it starting at 7:ooam) and if you looked down Vanderbilt or facing East on 14th Street in Manhattan you would have seen billows of smoke! -
... okay so maybe I'm so sunken from the brutal death, rapes, and taped up childen that I honestely pass the news if at all possible... my apologies
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I was in a cab on the FDR last night and couldn't believe how huge the smoke plume was coming off the thing. It's still going this morning, too.
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I drove from PH across the Brooklyn Bridge and up the FDR to 34th Street yesterday morning -- it was pretty creepy. Any black plume of smoke across the NYC sky is reminiscent of September 11 to me, but this was huge. And the air still smells like it.
www.1010wins.com has some amazing photos, including one of the IDS Building in Queens (I think) in the thick black smoke. Oddly familiar. Bleck. -
So I am still figuring Brooklyn out... but when I was walking over to the 2/3 on Bergen it smelled like smoke. Do you think its still smells from the fire yesterday?
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amyskittysitting wrote: ... okay so maybe I'm so sunken from the brutal death, rapes, and taped up childen that I honestely pass the news if at all possible... my apologies
No worries... I block out any news reports about Bush, Cheney or anything to do with Iraq... right now for me ignorance is bliss... -
Definitely. It still smells. Anyone remember the Canadian fires from a couple of years ago? It was hazy and smelly around here for a few days. And the smell from the WTC fire was inescapable. This one's only a few miles north. Apparently we're downwind from everywhere.
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