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."

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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!!

esquared™ said...

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EV Grieve said...

@esquared

haha! Very true!

Chris Todora said...

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