A Thanksgiving Day electrical fireplace in a Brooklyn manhole devoured up an SUV earlier than spreading into a close-by condo constructing — and practically derailed one household’s vacation meal, FDNY officers stated.
The flames erupted round midday alongside Remsen Road in Brooklyn Heights Thursday, inflicting the evacuation of three buildings within the tony neighborhood, together with no less than one household within the midst of cooking their Thanksgiving feast, stated FDNY Deputy Chief Stephen Corcoran.
An SUV parked over the manhole by Hicks Road was consumed by the blaze as greater than 100 firefighters and EMS personnel arrived to quench the hearth, officers stated.
The hearth gave the impression to be electrical in nature — a trigger bolstered by the smoke eaters’ issue battling the flames and its obvious unfold to a fourth-floor condo in 76 Remsen St., Corcoran stated.
“There’s intensive fireplace all the way down to that condo, they won’t be able to reoccupy that condo this night,” Corcoran stated Thursday.
Two different close by buildings had been evacuated due to elevated carbon monoxide ranges, officers stated.
Corcoran stated these buildings’ residents would be capable of return to their houses that night, however doubtless could be with out energy as Con Edison crews minimize electrical energy to assist extinguish {the electrical} fireplace.
However there was a small silver lining for one constructing.
“One of many buildings that had the extraordinarily excessive elevated carbon monoxide ranges, we had been in a position to go in and save their Thanksgiving dinner and pack up their meals for them and provides it to them in order that they’ll take it to a relative’s home and revel in it there,” Corcoran stated.
Nobody was injured within the blaze, which firefighters acquired beneath management round 1:25 p.m., fireplace officers stated.
The hearth’s trigger stays beneath investigation.
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