Fire-gutted Building on Park Place and 5th ave??

MOD

Did anyone see this building go up in flames? They're cleaning it up right now and putting up some boards. It's the corner building that housed the chinese take-out called "Egg Roll" on the bottom floor. Next to the store that the old man sells lotto tickets out of and next to Key Foods. The top floors are gone, all there is left is some brick walls up there. Not too sure if the Egg Roll place survived.

If anyone has the scoop on how it happen please tell. :?:

jeffrey

Subject: Re: Fire-gutted Building on Park Place and 5th ave??

Cut and pasted from another blog:

http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/977 wrote:
Comment from M. Hermann
Time: March 28, 2007, 10:32 am

Baltic & 5th: Fire was initially visible on the interior of the top floor of a three-story building. Everyone apparently got out of that floor quickly, but there were people at the windows on the 2nd floor. A civilian, who was on his cell phone with 911, shouted at these people to exit the building.

Some of the same companies that had operated at Remsen St. were on the front lines at 5th & Baltic, too—Battalion Chief Cuccurullo of Battalion 31 and Deputy Chief Mandala of Division 11 assumed command of both fires—including Tower Ladder 105, whose members went to work venting the building’s windows from the exterior. Before long, the roof collapsed and fire was blowing out of nine windows in the front, side, and rear of the structure. The Lieutenant of Engine 219 had his helmet knocked off his head, but he escaped injury.

What appeared to be cracks in the building’s walls caused fear of an imminent collapse, but it proved to be only in the brickface facade, and did not affect the actual structural stability.

It was almost two hours before the incident was declared under control. The B63 bus, naturally, had to be re-routed for a few blocks. Fire Marshals are investigating what caused the fire, and the Board of Health responded to handle the Chinese restaurant on the ground floor, while Red Cross representatives tended to the needs of displaced residents.

I have lots of photos, but want to wait to see what, if anything, the Daily News or the Eagle run of mine before I post a link.

pics of the fire:
http://adriankinloch.smugmug.com/gallery/2230400

Yipes. :shock:

luis90cooper

Whoa! That looked scary. Glad to hear everybody got out.

jeffrey

Even more photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/e-liz/archives/date-taken/2007/03/28/

Dood.

veets

Those of us who have ever had a fire look at thosephotos with a different eye. Over 23 years ago we had a fire in our home. I won't go in to details... everyone was just fine.. but to this day I notice that if I am walking on the street with a friend and a fire truck zooms by us with sirens going off I have a visceral reaction that harkens back to one of the worst night of my life.

pitu

wow - awful
everybody, PLEASE get yourselves one of these!
only $15-$20 . . .

veets

Yes... do that.. get fire extinguisher and smoke alarms but don't count on those completely. the speed with which fire spreads is remarkable. I can tell you that the sequence of what happened when we had a fire was quick.. quick enough to get our family out of the house and the LAST thing that happened in that sequence was the (WORKING GOOD BATTERY) smoke ALARMS going off.

christina

I live on this block and I got home at 2am that night. The fire apparently started around 2.30am and there were 12 firetrucks trying to put it out.
What scares the sh!t out of me is that I slept right through it. Didn't have a clue until Wednesday night when I noticed the boards around the Chinese take-away... :shock:

theoryofpractice

Holy moly. Great pics of a terrible event.

quiddity

Oh my God. Terrible. I live two blocks away and definitely didn't wake up. Poor displaced families -- what a terrifying ordeal.