A marijuana farm on Vanderbilt, near Dean

Yup.

Quote:

"The 77th Precinct would like to make a community notification of an arrest made and the discovery of a marijuana farm inside of 577 Vanderbilt Avenue. The details are as follows:

Sunday, June 8,2014 at approximately 3:00pm officers responded to a job of a fire at 577 Vanderbilt Avenue. Further investigation revealed that a marijuana farm was being grown in the basement and backyard of 577 Vanderbilt Avenue. Subsequently an arrest was made of a male, black, 45 years old who owned and operated the marijuana farm.

PO Tania Salters
Community Affairs
77th Precinct
127 Utica Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11213
718-735-0634/646-373-7183
[email hidden]"

...were the actual plants on fire?

Maybe there was no fire just a big smoke out.

It did cause me to recall that movie where Cheech and Chong's van is made of weed, and catches fire.

a bit of a liberal use of the word "farm"

Perhaps PO Salters wrote her Community Notification at the scene, and the smoke caused her perspective to be warped.

It was in the basement no less.  Is this the promised 40sq ft. and a mule?

I do hope this arrest does not discourage people who engage in illegal activity from calling the fire dept when there is a fire.

I'd hate for a fire to spread to my apartment because they tried to put it out on their own to avoid arrest....

Puff, puff, pass the fire extinguisher...

If it really had been a farm, then wouldn't it have been nice to belong to its CSA?

that'd also explain why there was a cop guarding the entrance of that building all night. that was the most amount of fire trucks ive ever seen for a residential fire. firemen climbing on fire truck ladders to every floor.

http://brokelyn.com/house-fire-reveals-giant-growing-operation-vanderbilt-avenue/

^Good photos! ^

tip of an ice berg in Crown Hts.