A total of ten people — half of them firefighters — were injured, though not badly, in a fire in a residential apartment building in upper Manhattan Saturday morning, the FDNY said.
More than 106 firefighters and EMS personnel, in a total of 25 vehicles, responded around 8:30 a.m. to the scene of the two-alarm blaze at 568 W. 149th St. in Hamilton Heights.
According to an FDNY spokesperson, the blaze broke out on the building’s third and fourth floors
Five civilians and five firefighters suffered minor injuries. The civilians all refused medical attention at the scene while the firefighters were all transported to local hospitals.
The flames were brought under control by around 9:20 a.m. FDNY fire marshals are investigating the cause of the fire.
Saturday morning, a Department of Buildings partial-vacate order was visible pasted on the place’s front door — specifically applying to one second-floor apartment. The notice stated that in the apartment’s rear, there were “sloping and sagging” floors, with a roughly 2-inch gap between the molding and floor. These “potentially hazardous conditions” had rendered the apartment “unsafe to occupy,” the order said.
