Friday, July 9, 2010

Cause of 2 fires discovered

From Eyewitness News:

The FDNY has identified the causes of two five-alarm fires in Queens on Wednesday.

The first fire damaged six apartments at a building at 86-16 60 Avenue in Elmhurst.

The Fire Department says it took nearly an hour and a half to get the fire under control. It spread among a group of two-story buildings sharing a roof. The cause was an unattended candle, officials said.

Hours later, fire and smoke poured from the roof of an apartment building at 16-66 Bell Boulevard.

Investigators said illegal use of a torch on combustible roof sparked this fire. Fire marshals arrested the building worker for reckless endangerment.

In both cases, more than a dozen firefighters suffered from heat exhaustion trying to put out the flames.

8 comments:

georgetheatheist said...

"L'enfers. C'est les autres."

- Jean-Paul Sartre, HUIS CLOS, 1944

Anonymous said...

"Le ciel est dans votre esprit"

-- Steve Winwood

Anonymous said...

"Le ciel est dans votre esprit"

-- Steve Winwood

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Non compos mentis.

Anonymous said...

Si vos narro sic.

Anonymous said...

Great, now even Queens Crap has gone bi-lingual! Yet another tweeder victory....

Anonymous said...

The NYC Buildings Dept. has begung major lay-offs today. More coming in the near future.

Anonymous said...

you are in Queens County, please speak mandarin,korean or spanish.

Anonymous said...

"...combustible roof" -- what was it made out of? phosphorus?