3-alarm blaze in Brooklyn
A fast-moving fire tore through a Brooklyn apartment building Sunday afternoon, sending smoke and flames billowing into the air for hours.
Over 130 firefighters descended on the twostory home on Essex St. near Atlantic Ave. in East New York around 12:30 p.m. and blasted water into a second-floor window in an effort to douse the flames.
Joel Cabrera, 36, was walking home from church when he saw the three-alarm blaze across the street from his house.
“It was real bad,” he said. “The whole block was full of smoke.”
The building was packed with debris and more than three hours after the blaze broke out firefighters were still dousing pockets of flames.
“One of the reasons why it was such a bad fire, as you can see, it has a whole bunch of stuff,” Cabrera added. “That could’ve been avoided had he not had so much stuff in there. It made it worse.”
No one was injured in the inferno, the FDNY said. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the building was occupied when the fire erupted.