[Updated] Report of a fire on 9th Street

FDNYalerts MAN ALL HANDS 218 E 9 ST, MIXED OCCUPANCY FIRE ON THE 2ND FLR,

— FDNYalerts (@FDNYAlerts) April 21, 2018

The FDNY is on the scene at 218 E. Ninth St. between Second Avenue and Third Avenue... it's the building directly to the west of the parking garage.

Witnesses at the scene report hearing an explosion...

| @evgrieve Explosion on 9th Street. pic.twitter.com/7StJbgAidr

— Liberation Iannillo (@thevulgarera) April 21, 2018

Will update when more details are available...

UPDATED:

NOTORIOUS shared this a little before 4 p.m.:

Around 3:30 pm there was a loud explosion outside that sounded like a violent car crash. The FDNY arrived almost instantly and shut down the street. The fire appears to be in 218 East 9th, the building with Yakiniku West. It's been 25 minutes since the fire started and it's still going strong. More FDNY are pulling up now.

Steven took these photos of the FDNY's response...









EVG reader jba shared these photos showing some of the damage to No. 218...





... and another view via Aaron Wilson...



CBS 2's Reena Roy has a report...

Yakiniku West restaurant on the first floor and three apartments above were damaged, officials said. Five adults and one child were displaced.

“They were confronted with a heavy smoke condition upon arrival on the first floor,” one fire official told CBS2’s Reena Roy. “We had 25 units operating here with 106 firefighters. There was a lot of overhauling, a lot of walls and ceilings were taken down, too. There’s a lot of damage right now.”

The fire reportedly started behind a refrigerator on the second floor and quickly spread. There weren't any reports of injuries.

#FDNY members are on scene of a 2-alarm fire, 218 E 9 St. Manhattan. Currently no injuries have been reported. pic.twitter.com/1F42rUnHNz

— FDNY (@FDNY) April 21, 2018

Report: 7th Street resident dies in early-morning apartment fire

FDNYalerts MAN ALL HANDS 244 E 7 ST, MULTIPLE DWELLING FIRE ON FIRST FLR,

— FDNYalerts (@FDNYAlerts) March 18, 2018

An early-morning fire at 244 E. Seventh St. between Avenue C and Avenue D reportedly left one man dead and three other people injured.

According to the Daily News, the fire started on the first floor of the six-story walk up around 6:10 a.m.

Per the News:

The fire was confined to the rear apartment, where the victim was found dead in a cluttered rear bedroom...

Fire Marshals are investigating the cause of the deadly blaze.

Updated 12:25 p.m.

amNew York reports that the victim was 71 years old.

Updated 3/19

NY1 reported that the victim was Barry Allen. There wasn't a smoke alarm in the apartment where the fire started, and the alarm in the hallway was not working, the FDNY said.

3rd Street collateral damage

Several readers mentioned a small fire that started late Wednesday night on Third Street at Avenue B... one reader said some kids (youth!) were lighting a box of saturn missiles (celebrating the last day of January?)... that ignited the garbage bags on the curb... and this Nissan Altima was the collateral damage. The FDNY quickly put out the flames. The car, now without license plates, remains on Third Street...



H/T Salim for the photos!

Report of a fire last night at 96 St. Mark's Place

There was a report of a fire last night around midnight at 96 St. Mark's Place between Avenue A and First Avenue.

Hey @evgrieve: several fire companies pulling hoses into buildings on St. marks between First and A. pic.twitter.com/Rl8VOVdxPO

— Julian Fleisher (@JulianFlei) December 21, 2016

The initial @FDNY tweet went out at 12:12 a.m.

MAN ALL HANDS 96 ST MARKS PLACE, MULTIPLE DWELLING FIRE 1ST FLR,

— FDNYalerts (@FDNYAlerts) December 21, 2016

The all clear came at 1 a.m.

MAN ALL HANDS 96 ST MARKS PLACE, MULTIPLE DWELLING FIRE 1ST FLR, UNDER CONTROL

— FDNYalerts (@FDNYAlerts) December 21, 2016

According to a building resident, the fire started on the first floor, with some damage in the basement and on the second floor. The Red Cross was on the scene and provided a temporary place to stay for displaced residents. The fire marshal is expected on the scene today.

This morning, the front door was propped open. The interior smelled like smoke.



The only remnant of a fire was a piece of charred wood...



Residents on the upper floors were allowed back in. Per the EVG reader: "It smells pretty acrid, so I'm bunking elsewhere for a few nights to try to let everything air out."

As of this morning, the tenants had yet to hear from their landlord.

And if the address is familiar... the cover of Led Zeppelin’s "Physical Graffiti" depicts the two buildings located at 96 and 98 St Mark's Place.

Updated

Several readers asked... both businesses here, Physical Graffitea and Xe May Sandwich Shop, are open...

Report of a fire at 104 Avenue B

[Photo by Mike H. on 9th Street]

The FDNY is responding to a report of a fire at 104 Avenue B between Sixth Street and Seventh Street ... (the building one south of where Vazac's/7B/the Horseshoe Bar is...)


[Reader submitted]

Fire on Ave B, right near 7B (but doesn't look like 7B building) cc @evgrieve @chelsa 🔥🚒 pic.twitter.com/X4WRvFPhYJ

— Dennis Crowley (@dens) August 24, 2016

No word on the cause or the extent at this moment. The fire, which appears contained to the roof, did not make it to the @FDNYalert... One witness said that the smell of smoke is strong for several blocks.

Updated... via the comments: "according to neighbors who eye witnessed the event, an air conditioner caught on fire. firemen had to ascend through the adjacent building and douse the flames from the roof."

Report of a fire escape fire on 11th Street and Avenue C early this morning

[Photo by Bill May]

The FDNY responded to a report of a fire on the northwest corner of 11th Street and Avenue C this morning just before 5, as several EVG readers pointed out...


[Photo by Bill May]

Chris via Teamspider shared these videos... the first is at 4:53 a.m. before the FDNY arrived...



...and a few minutes later...



No word on the cause of the fire... and there doesn't appear to be much, if any, damage. The report did not make the @FDNYalerts account.

[Updated] Report of a fire at 133 E. 7th St.; Yuca Bar remains closed

[Photo by Shawn Chittle]

There were reports of a fire at 133 E. Seventh St. at Avenue A just before 6 this evening...


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[Mark Cyr]


[MC]

The FDNY was on it quickly...


[Photo by Perri Silver]


[Reader submitted]


[Reader submitted]


[Photo by Vinny & O]


[V&O]

About 30 minutes after the initial report, the fire was under control, per the FDNY...

MAN ALL HANDS 133 E 7 ST, MULTIPLE DWELLING FIRE ON 2ND FLR, UNDER CONTROL

— FDNY (@FDNY) March 6, 2016

Updated 7:35

The FDNY remains on the scene... Yuca Bar is closed... there's broken glass all over the sidewalk... Avenue A is closed off at St Mark's Place and East Sixth Street... and there's no through traffic on East Seventh Street...





As of this moment, there isn't any information on the cause or extent of the damage...

Updated 9:49 p.m.

Word from the scene is that a candle in an apartment started the fire. There weren't any reports of injuries.

Updated 7:30 a.m.

Here's a look at the East Seventh Street side of the building... firefighters needed to break the windows on the upper floors ...



Updated 4:50 p.m.

Ground-floor tenant Yuca Bar is closed tonight...



The dining room is also empty at the moment. It appears that the restaurant sustained some damages too...



Updated 6:15 p.m.


[Photo this evening by Steven]

Reader report: The result of this morning's fire behind 105 Avenue B

There was a report of a fire this morning at 105 Avenue B just south of East Seventh Street.

A neighbor with knowledge of the situation shared this:

This morning’s fire in the rear of 105 Avenue B was apparently started when a lit cigarette was dropped from a window into the trash and igniting it. The basement access was locked and no super was present, so firefighters used the ladder to scale to the roof and down the rear of the building to the fire.

The fire was severe enough that it melted the main TWC feed for that section of the block. Residents of several adjacent buildings will be without Internet, TV or phone until TWC can address the problem.

Photo this morning via @af

Report of a fire at 124 Avenue C

There was a report of a fire late this afternoon at 124 Avenue C... at the southeast corner of Eighth Street ... in the building that houses the laundromat...



The FDNY was on it quickly, and there doesn't appear to be any major damage at the moment, per eyewitness accounts ... ( and there isn't any mention of the fire on the @FDNY Twitter account... )



Thanks to @cj__ts for the photos...

Report of a fire this morning at 100 E. 7th St.

MAN ALL HANDS 100 E 7TH ST, MULTIPLE DWELLING FIRE ON 2ND FLR,

— FDNY (@FDNY) January 31, 2016

Several readers have told us about an early-morning fire at 100 E. Seventh St. between Avenue A and First Avenue. The official FDNY Twitter account announced the fire at 7:17 a.m., and gave the "under control" at 7:30 a.m.

MAN ALL HANDS 100 E 7TH ST, MULTIPLE DWELLING FIRE ON 2ND FLR, UNDER CONTROL

— FDNY (@FDNY) January 31, 2016

Unfortunately, we don't have any further information about the cause of the fire, which started in a second-floor apartment. A reader at the scene said that there didn't appear to be any injuries.

You can see the fire-damaged unit in the photo from later this morning...


[Photo by Derek Berg]

H/T Bill the Libertarian Anarchist

Report of a fire at 121 St. Mark's Place

The FDNY responded to a fire at 121 St. Mark's Place between First Avenue and Avenue A just after 7 this evening...

MAN ALL HANDS 121 ST MARKS PL, MULTIPLE DWELLING FIRE ON 4TH FLR,

— FDNY (@FDNY) March 1, 2015

An EVG reader shared these photos... word on the scene was that there weren't any injuries...



No word on the cause at this time.

The FDNY declared the situation under control in about 20 minutes...

MAN ALL HANDS 121 ST MARKS PL, MULTIPLE DWELLING FIRE ON 4TH FLR, UNDER CONTROL

— FDNY (@FDNY) March 1, 2015

Updated: Report of a basement fire at 133 E. 4th St.

The FDNY is on the scene at East Fourth Street and First Avenue... for a fire that was reported at 11 a.m.

MAN ALL HANDS 133 E 4 ST, MULTIPLE DWELLING FIRE IN BASEMENT,

— FDNY (@FDNY) January 13, 2015

We'll update the story when we receive more information.

Photos by John Coakley

Updated 11:54 a.m.

MAN ALL HANDS 133 E 4 ST, MULTIPLE DWELLING FIRE IN BASEMENT, UNDER CONTROL

— FDNY (@FDNY) January 13, 2015

Updated 1:38 p.m.

While we haven't heard about a cause... several EVG Facebook friends noted that the fire started in the basement of Guayoyo, the delicious Venezuelan restaurant who is currently without power or gas.

Updated 6:25 p.m.

Guayoyo is closed this evening... there isn't any sign up about the closure...

[Updated] Fire this morning at 92 St. Mark's Place

The FDNY responded to a fire this morning just before 8 at 92 St. Mark's Place east of First Avenue.

MAN ALL HANDS 92 ST MARKS PL, MULTIPLE DWELLING FIRE 1ST FLR,

— FDNY (@FDNY) August 17, 2014

Firefighters smashed the windows and cut away the window guards of the ground-floor apartment as they quickly had the situation under control.

We saw one soot-covered resident, a male in his late 20s or early 30s, wearing only shirts sit down next door on the steps to Physical Graffitea. A next-door neighbor brought him a blanket. Paramedics brought another woman out of the building and treated her on the scene for smoke inhalation, according to witnesses.







First Avenue was temporarily closed to northbound traffic at East Seventh Street. At this point, we do not know the cause of the fire or the extent of the damage. As far as we know right now, there were not any serious injuries.

Updated Aug. 18, 6 a.m.

The Post reports that the FDNY reduced two unconscious women from the fire. They are both "hospitalized in serious condition with smoke inhalation."

The cause of the fire is still under investigation, "but sources said investigators are focusing on the theory that smoking may have caused the couch to burst into flames."

Here's No. 92 early last evening...



Top photos via @evgrieve

Report of a fire at 279 E. Fourth St.

[Photo via @cvparso]

Nearly a dozen FDNY and NYPD vehicles are tending to reports of a fire on East Fourth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C... the official FDNY Twitter feed puts the blaze at 279 E. Fourth St.

MAN ALL HANDS 279 E 4 ST, MULTIPLE DWELLING FIRE ON FIRST FLR,

— FDNY (@FDNY) March 18, 2014

The FDNY quickly had things under control...

MAN ALL HANDS 279 E 4 ST, MULTIPLE DWELLING FIRE ON FIRST FLR, UNDER CONTROL

— FDNY (@FDNY) March 18, 2014

No word just yet on injuries or the extent of the damage. No. 279 is owned by the NYCHA, and includes a rehab center.

Updated 10:49 p.m.

Zac from East 4th shared these photos...







Zac heard breaking glass as the firefighters climbed into the building... he did not spot any flames, however.