fire on 3rd st?

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3:35 AM: The Scene After the Fire on Third Street in Park Slope

Because police were not allowing people to cross Sixth Avenue and walk towards the fire scene, I had to walk down Second Street to Fifth Avenue and around to Third Street to get to 392 or 394 Third Street, a 4-story, 8-unit limestone apartment building, where the fire took place.

By the time I got near the building, the flames were out but smoke was emanating from the burned-out apartment. The rest of the building was evacuated except I could see that lights and a television set were on in the first floor apartment on the right. There were no lights on in any of the other apartments.

A ladder from 122 (a firehouse on 11th Street) reached up to the fourth floor apartment on the right and I could see from the sidewalk that firefighters were hard at work inside hosing the apartment down. The pump truck was from Squad 1.

An EMT worker standing on the north side of Third Street told me that three people from the building were taken to the hospital. One person had burns and the other two had smoke inhalation. "One was a Code 3," he told a reporter from the NY Daily News who was also trying to get information.

"Do you know which house got the grab?" the reporter asked the EMT.

"Whoa. You know the lingo. I haven't heard that since the 1970's," he told her.

None of the firefighters or EMTs, who were standing on the north side of Third Street, knew the cause of the fire yet.

"Does anyone know where the Chief is," the Daily News reporter asked.

"He's over there but he's a little busy right now," the EMT told her.

A neighbor from Fourth Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues didn't smell smoke from his home, which is right around the corner, but he heard the sirens and "the sounds of axes and saws coming from the burning buildingt," he told me. "The smoke smell is much worse up by 6th Avenue," he said.

The Red Cross was on the scene helping out the other residents of the building. Adults and children were evacuated from the other apartments and taken in by people in neighboring buildings, According to one EMT, none of the other residents of the building suffered injuries, burns or smoke inhalation.

He did offer one bit of advice:

"It's important this time of year that people make sure their smoke detectors are working and especially their carbon monoxide detectors. It's a cheap device but it can save lives," the EMT told me.

December 23, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Park Slope Fire on Third Street Between Fifth & Sixth Avenues

Residents of Third Street in Park Slope were awakened by the sound of firetruck sirens and the smell of smoke at 3 AM Wednesday morning. The fire was in the top floor apartment of 392 or 394 Third Street, a 4-story, 8-unit limestone apartment building on the south side of Third Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

Three residents of Third Street (between Sixth and Seventh Avenues) braved the icy sidewalks to see what all the commotion (and smoke) was about on this frigid night with temperatures hovering around 21 degrees but with a wind chill that made it feel more like 14 degrees.

One Third Street resident told me: "I saw flames blazing out the top floor windows of that building. I think it's 392 or 394, I'm not sure." Trucks from 122, Squad 1 and 105 and EMTs were already on the scene when he got outside. "The response time was extremely quick," he said. Standing near the building minutes after the blaze was put out he said, "I saw two people naked and unconscious being taken out of the building," he said. "That apartment is completely destroyed."

Standing on 6th Avenue and Third Street we watched as an unconscious person on a gurney was wheeled by EMTs and put in an ambulance.

At approximately 3 AM, I woke to the sound of sirens and actually smelled smoke in my apartment, which is in the middle of the block between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. The smell got more intense in our public hallway and I walked up to the doors of all the apartments in my building to make sure the fire wasn't coming from our building.

When I got downstairs I saw the flashing lights of fire trucks on Sixth Avenue and more trucks between Sixth and Fifth Avenues. Numerous residents of my block were outside because they had smelled smoke and thought the fire was in their building or one nearby. One woman who lives closer to 7th Avenue told me: "I thought my building was on fire." When she tried to cross the street at Sixth Avenue to get a closer look at what was going on a policeman jumped out of his squad car and ran across the street. "Lady, do not go there. Get back. You are not to go down there," he yelled.

"I just wanted to see what was going on," she told him as she walked back to the east side of Sixth Avenue and walked home.

December 23, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Sucks bad.