A massive fire that started late Sunday and burned for four hours destroyed 61 apartments in three Chinatown buildings, killing one person. The flames damaged 11 buildings. Several streets surrounding the fire scene were closed including. Grand Street from Forsyth Street to Allen Street and Eldridge Street from Canal Street to Grand Street.
Officials say the fire started on the basement of 283 Grand Street, a mixed residential and commercial building. The fire spread through a shaft to the roof before affecting three other buildings property. A Fire Department spokesman said that 33 people were injured, 29 of them firefighters.
The spokesman, Firefighter James Long, said that the fire broke out in the back of a store on the first floor of 283 Grand Street, a six-story building property. On Monday morning, a fire hose still snaked into a fourth building, 281 Grand Street, and wisps of smoke continued to rise from the other three.
I heard my mother yelling, ‘It’s fire! It’s fire!’ Authorities say a fire that ripped through an apartment building in New York's Chinatown injured three civilians and about 30 firefighters. Fourteen people are homeless today after a two-alarm fire damaged a Chinatown building housing a convenience store and four floors of apartments in this real estate.
Two elderly residents are in critical condition with smoke inhalation. Fire Department spokesman James Long says three buildings are gone. The fire broke out around 10:15 p.m. Sunday on the first floor of the residential and commercial building.
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