Wednesday, July 30, 2025

A look at Monday afternoon’s rooftop fire on 2nd Street

We received several reader reports of a dramatic-looking rooftop fire on Monday afternoon at 252 E. Second St. near Avenue C. 

EVG reader P. Skiff shared these top three photos... as the FDNY quickly arrived on the scene...
EVG's Stacie Joy was there after firefighters had extinguished the flames...
One firefighter sustained minor injuries and was taken to the hospital as a precaution. 

There wasn't any immediate word on the cause or extent of the damage. The FDNY quickly had it extinguished. 

Thankfully, it looked a lot worse than it was...
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2 comments:

  1. cmarrtyyJuly 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM

    When something like this happens I think of portable fire pits that tenants use when they party on roof tops.

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  2. mascotJuly 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM

    I watched as those 20-sometings burned a hole thru my building roof...tar BURNS...and the karma was it was their apartment that got damaged,,,and like all the transitory kids coming and going from my building/my block/this nabes, it's just another day...

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