Friday, October 22, 2010

Why there were fire trucks outside the Christodora House last night

Fire trucks lined up on Avenue B last night a little after 9... here between Ninth Street and 10th Street, in front of the Christodora House... Bob Arihood was on the scene ... he passed along the photos and a narrative...




"... apparently a burning cigarette lodged itself in a sidewalk expansion joint and started a smoldering fire in some combustable packing or form spacer material. Locating the smoldering smoke-producing ember which was kept burning by the natural upward draft of the tall Christodora building took some time. FDNY personnel finally located the burning ember and extingushed it."

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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 22, 2010 at 9:57 AM

    And smokers think they don't affect anyone.. . . Walking the streets includes dodging swaying cigarettes in peoples' hands, and butts being thrown about like the sidewalk is a garbage can for flames. And this is not just one age group doing this.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 22, 2010 at 10:28 AM

    I was walking on 1st Avenue near Blackhound Bakery when someone flicked a lit cigarette from an open window down to the pavement and it almost hit me. WTF!!

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  3. esquared™October 22, 2010 at 11:03 AM

    i'm telling you, man, that noot seear is one hot woman

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  4. EV GrieveOctober 22, 2010 at 11:24 AM

    @esquared

    haha! Very true!

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  5. Chris TodoraMarch 13, 2011 at 7:18 PM

    I'am so glad it did not burn my building down!

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