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Daniel Root was back in East River Park this afternoon ... where you can see FDNY crews still pumping water onto the smoldering ruins of CitiStorage, a record storage facility, in Williamsburg.
The fire broke out early Saturday morning at 5 N. 11th St. (at Kent Avenue).
Officials reportedly said this afternoon that it might be days before authorities had any information on how the fire started.
According to
various published reports, such as NBC New York, the warehouse primarily stored records for more than 100 health care organizations and law firms, according to Recall Holdings, the parent company of CitiStorage.
The
Times reported that charred medical records, court transcripts, legal letters, sonograms, bank checks and more — many marked confidential — were found around the neighborhood.
"They're like treasure maps, but with people's personal information all over them," Spencer Bergen, 24, said of the half-charred scraps that he said he had seen strewn around the Williamsburg neighborhood as far inland as Berry Street, several blocks from the warehouse.
The fire required more than 60 units and 275 firefighters to get under control.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Scenes of the 7-alarm fire in Williamsburg from East River Park
