Raw Story – ReutersA seven-alarm fire that destroyed a warehouse and forced an evacuation in one of New York City’s trendiest neighborhoods could take weeks to extinguish completely, fire officials said on Sunday.
Some 270 firefighters have been sent to battle the blaze, which broke out early on Saturday, charring a four-story storage facility in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, said firefighter Daniel Glover. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
The city’s health department issued a warning late on Saturday, asking residents of the neighborhood, which is lined with bars and restaurants, to stay indoors with their windows closed to avoid smoke-related injuries. One person reported minor smoke inhalation injury.
“As with most fires of this magnitude, it is important that everyone limit their exposure to smoke,” the health department said in a statement.
Images posted to social media show billowing smoke forming a gray cloud above Brooklyn and a blackened carcass of the warehouse, which specializes in storing paper office records, taking up the length of an entire block.
Images showed firefighters, who fought the flames in frigid temperatures overnight, with icicles hanging down from their helmets.
The fire, which forced the evacuation of a nearby commercial area, was largely smoldering by Sunday morning and was not considered a threat to nearby buildings, Glover said.
Fire crews will likely remain at the site of the fire for the coming weeks to control smoldering, debris and small pockets of fire that may erupt, Glover said.
(Reporting by Laila Kearney; Editing by Dominic Evans)
Gee, I wonder what incriminating evidence of financial criminality is being destroyed by burning up all of these ‘paper office records’?
They’ve got to let it burn for 4 days to get all of the evidence completely destroyed. Special “firefighters” will remain on scene to frequently stir up the embers and get oxygen to the paper fuel allowing complete combustion.
My first thought, also. 😉
I had a lot to say but they won’t let me anymore Angel-NYC.
😕 😯 They won’t let you anymore???
Given the way digger use to “go off” (how I miss his comments 😆 ), I can’t imagine You being “Monitored”… You’ve always been a “gentleman”, in comparison. LOL 😉 🙂
They got me on their radar. If this comment makes it through with me submitting what I got, I’ll finish the comment in the “edit” option before they catch up with me there.
@ Millard 4:42 pm
WOW! I’m really confused… Did something happen, in a different story, that I missed?
Send ME an email about it. 😉
Beware of collapsing buildings in the vicinity.
I hear that’s common in NYC. Buildings near fires collapsing. (sar-casm)
Can I puke now? I know, watching the halftime of the Stupor Bowel is what all the sheeples drool for. However, that was the most outrageous “piece of shit” performance, with sprinkles, that I’ve ever witnessed. I’m going to go puke now.
LMFAO Millard
Hubby was saying (and is doing) the same thing. 😆
Give Randy kudos from me Angel-NYC!
Who’s Randy? LOL
BAAAAAARF!!!!!
Hey Paul, what up with that? Katie Perry’s halftime show has to the most lame performance in the history of “bullshit” halftime performances. At least I wasn’t burdened and blinded by a nipple!
LOL
Remember when Madonna fell on her rear end?
hah!! the whole thing was stupid Millard. didnt watch very much of it though.
😯
Yes Paul, that halftime show was so nauseating it should be used at Emergency Rooms to induce vomiting for poison victims.
lol
Did you see any of the pre-show? This will really make you Barf.
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/02/01/johnny-weirs-super-bowl-look-wows/21137703/
Yes Angel. it made me barf!! Disgusting!! what talent??
Son’s of bitches just deleted a comment that was more than a paragraph long. I’ll e-mail you guys and let you know, if they let me. Just to air everything out, I’m going to find you f$%kers and end your waste of breath, bitches!
who you talkin bout Millard?
I got some little “bitch boys” trying to f#@K with me and I can’t make a long comment before they delete it or they won’t let me answer the security question to submit my comment. Half the time, my keyboard strokes are ignored. I just am finishing this comment in the “click to edit” section on the site.
wonder if the unplug battery thing would work.
Been there, done that.
cleaned all your temp files etc.?
Now, I understand… 😉 Not something within the Trenches… an attack from outside… like digger, #1, and many of us have experienced… 🙁 👿
My so-called “professional” and spendy Kaspersky computer security is a crock of $hit! IMHO is the belief that these computer security @ssholes create the problem and sell the solution. What a gig they got goin’ there.
could very well be Millard. Maybe a bitch slap administered to the correct person would help. 😡
Lead a horse to water, Paul.
yeah. 😡
“As with most fires of this magnitude, it is important that everyone limit their exposure to smoke,” the health department said in a statement.”
Besides, the chemtrails more than adequate to poison the air.
There’s only one type of smoke that’s good for ya, #1. 😆
funny if it we’nt so dammed in your face stupid!
i used to think everybody was a dumb stupid nut!
and then i found out i was 1!
i’m tha nu kid on tha block & so just wanted to say………
BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
ps. Stoney! 🙂