Monday, September 25, 2017
Ozone Park cellar fire kills sleeping landlord
From CBS 2:
Police say 68-year-old landlord Mohinder Singh was in the basement of the home and didn’t make it out alive. When the more than 60 firefighters got the blaze under control, they found him lifeless inside.
Roughly nine others who live in three-story multi-family home woke up to thick smoke. They ran out in pajamas, rushing to safety.
According to DOB records, this house is not a "multi-family" but a 2 family. That's also a cellar and not a basement. No one should have been sleeping in the cellar.
6 comments:
The news keeps reporting this as Jamaica, but it's not. It's Ozone Park. It's almost 40 blocks east from Jamaica. It's actually closer to Richmond Hill. I don't get why they are insisting otherwise.
Explain the difference between a cellar and a basement. Just curious. Number of exits? Plumbing? Finish?
Not certain, but I believe a "cellar" is completely below ground level.
Again, I'm not 100% sure.
A cellar is anything more than 50% below street level. Anything above 50% is a basement.
Illegal conversion of course!
EVERY OTHER HOUSE IN RICHMOND HILL AND OZONE PARK IS ILLEGALLY CONVERTED!!
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