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Five alarm fi re hits 6-story
Grand Concourse apt complex
An aireal shot of the Grand Concourse fi re. FDNY
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MEMBER:
BY ALEX MITCHELL
The Grand Concourse
was shut down as a fivealarm
fire devastated a
Mount Eden apartment
complex overnight in the
late hours of Saturday, October
5.
The six floor building at
1555 Grand Concourse was
reported ablaze just before
10 p.m., when 200 units
and 44 EMS personnel began
to arrive, blocking off
much of the thoroughfare
between East 172nd Street
and Mount Eden Parkway.
FDNY members utilized
two ladder units to access
the roof from the Grand
Concourse, where the extinguishing
operation had
began.
“The building has multiple
sections, the fire
started on a top floor apartment
and spread to the
cockloft space and multiple
sections of the building,”
said FDNY Chief of Operations
Thomas Richardson
at the scene of the fire.
The FDNY indicated
that area units concentratred
on was the building’s
middle section, above the
front entrance.
Richardson continued
to explain that the operation
was attempting to
open up hot spots throughout
the roof in efforts to extinguish
the flames of the
intense fire.
Specifically, the fire is
believed to have started in
unit 6W and was accidentally
caused by an electrical
issue, according to the
FDNY. The unit had smoke
alarms present and operational,
the department
confirmed.
New York’s Bravest
brought the fire under control
a few minutes before
midnight with seven nonlife
threatening injures
reported to firefighters
in addition to one civilian
who sustained minor injuries.
Shortly after the fire
was under control that the
Grand Concourse had reopened
overnight.
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