Tuesday, April 2, 2013
16 people evacuated from 2-family house fire
From Eyewitness News:
Eleven people were injured, four of them seriously, when a smoky fire trapped a family in their second-floor home in Queens early Monday.
Firefighters were forced to rescue them through the windows.
The fire started in a kitchen of the apartment on 65th Avenue in Fresh Meadows just before 2 a.m., and officials say the situation could have been much worse if not for working smoke detectors.
Authorities say the family members - two parents and two children - were trapped in their bedrooms by the heavy smoke and began to lose consciousness.
Firefighters extended ladders to the second-floor windows and pulled out at least eight residents.
The 16 residents of the house were left homeless.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
The reporter in the above video called the house a "multifamily home" but according to DNA Info the address is 169-03 65th Avenue, which is listed in DOB records as a 2-family house, which is exactly what it looks like.
16 people living in a 2-family home? Those must be some big families.
7 comments:
I thought the same thing. 16 people living in one house? There's more to this story for sure.
JUST 16 PEOPLE IN A 2 FAMILY HOME? Come down my block where 16 people live in the basement apartment of a single family house. Don't ask me how many people live upstairs because I don't usually count my fingers and toes together.
The individuals left homeless should in fact sue the City and the owner for encouraging this illegal arrangement that I predict will become much more severe because of housing shortages.
I wonder how many were counted in the 2010 census, or if the current residents were even in the country then.
Illegal boarding house. certificate of occupancy defective. tenants living in basement apartment.
Why doesn't the public advocate office come out against illegal conversions instead of focusing on tired old friendly democratic party issues?
Once upon a time a family with 6 kids would not have merited this kind of scrutiny. Heck, nowadays among the Hasidim there are families with 8, or more, kids....
Shades of the 1950s when 30 Puerto Ricans could squeeze into one Bronx apartment.
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