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Saturday, April 12, 2014
Early morning car fire on East 8th Street
The FDNY was quick to respond to this car fire on East Eighth Street between Avenue C and Avenue D… EVG reader Peter H. from 8th Street shared these photos …
No word at the moment what caused the fire…
7 comments:
Anonymous
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Jobs like these make firefighting seem like a fun gig.
At least they come to put it out now, unlike 25 years ago. It's sad though that if took a bunch of wealthy people living there for that change to happen. Back then buildings, cars or whatever else would burn to the ground a lit of times with no fire dept. response.
I don't know, Jason; Ralph Feldman, a retired firefighter living here on East 8th street, credits the Fire Department with having kept the neighborhood largely intact.
Although I know I've been told of a rich lady at a cocktail party stating "It's the best way to clear the slums!" when asked what she thought of arson.
jason, I'm not sure what East Village you were living in, but I can tell you that Engine 5 NEVER failed to respond to a fire. In the early 1980s there was a drug war going on between the dealers on my block (11th between A-B) and the ones on the next block (B-C). Some dealers had moved into 542, abandoned at that point, and the B-C gang fired it THREE TIMES in one day to try and burn them out,and three times the Godzilla Gang responded immediately and put it out. In the 70s and 80s I can recall countless instances of firemen swarming the fire escapes of abandoned buildings all over the neighborhood after the arsonists did their work. The projects had the problem of stuff being thrown out windows, not the streets and avenues.
7 comments:
Jobs like these make firefighting seem like a fun gig.
Right outside the Firemen's Memorial Garden...
A burning car; How "old-school".
At least they come to put it out now, unlike 25 years ago. It's sad though that if took a bunch of wealthy people living there for that change to happen. Back then buildings, cars or whatever else would burn to the ground a lit of times with no fire dept. response.
Perhaps the "wealthy people" made it safer to responded without objects being tossed at them doing their job. Just a thought..
I don't know, Jason; Ralph Feldman, a retired firefighter living here on East 8th street, credits the Fire Department with having kept the neighborhood largely intact.
Although I know I've been told of a rich lady at a cocktail party stating "It's the best way to clear the slums!" when asked what she thought of arson.
jason, I'm not sure what East Village you were living in, but I can tell you that Engine 5 NEVER failed to respond to a fire. In the early 1980s there was a drug war going on between the dealers on my block (11th between A-B) and the ones on the next block (B-C). Some dealers had moved into 542, abandoned at that point, and the B-C gang fired it THREE TIMES in one day to try and burn them out,and three times the Godzilla Gang responded immediately and put it out. In the 70s and 80s I can recall countless instances of firemen swarming the fire escapes of abandoned buildings all over the neighborhood after the arsonists did their work. The projects had the problem of stuff being thrown out windows, not the streets and avenues.
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