A total of ten people – including half of the firefighters – were injured, but not bad, in a fire in a residential building in Upper Manhattan on Saturday morning, the FDNY said.
More than 106 EMS firefighters and staff, in a total of 25 vehicles, responded around 8:30 am to the two -alarm fire scene at 568 W. 149th St. Hamilton Heights.
According to An FDNY spokespersonThe fire broke out on the third and fourth floors of the building
Five civilians and five firefighters suffered minor injuries. Civilians all refused medical care on the scene while firefighters were all transported in local hospitals.
The flames were mastered around 9:20 am, the FDNY The Marshal Firefighters investigate the cause of the fire.
Saturday morning, an order from the Department of the Building Department was visible glued to the front door of the place – by specifically applying an apartment on the second floor. The opinion indicated that in the back of the apartment, there were floors “sloping and subsidence”, with a difference of about 2 inches between the molding and the ground. These “potentially dangerous conditions” had made the apartment “dangerous to occupy,” said the order.
