WAKEFIELD, The Bronx (WABC) — One particular person was taken into custody after a fireplace broke out at an condominium constructing within the Bronx and left two firefighters injured Wednesday evening.
FDNY officers say they obtained stories of a fireplace and folks leaping out of the window at 4140 Carpenter Ave. between East 230th and 231st streets within the Wakefield part.
Crews arrived on the scene to find fireplace on the fourth flooring of the six-story constructing.
Officers say crews had been capable of rapidly get strains in place and extinguish the fireplace on the fourth flooring, and a few flames that had prolonged to the fifth flooring.
Two firefighters had been taken to Jacobi Medical Heart for minor accidents.
No civilians had been injured, however police situated a male particular person who they are saying could have jumped from the fourth flooring, and took him into custody.
A supply near the investigation advised Eyewitness Information that the person who was taken into custody was an emotionally disturbed one that was beforehand evicted from the constructing.
They’re believed to have jumped from the fourth-floor condominium the place the fireplace broke out, and is below investigation for probably having began the fireplace.
The supply says the condominium ought to have been vacant at time of the fireplace. They are saying the person was carried to Montefiore Wakefield at finish of the block.
Hearth Marshals are on scene investigating the reason for fireplace.
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