Early video: Multi-alarm Long Island apartment fire. 30 with smoke inhalation. Two firefighters hurt.
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Thanks to BuffNetwork.com for alerting us to the four-alarm fire on Sunday evening in Hempstead, New York (Nassau County). Check out BuffNetwork.com’s coverage of the fire at 590 Fulton Avenue.
So far, it appears that Lou Minutoli at FirstOnScenePhotos has the earliest video posted from the fire (above and immediately below). Make sure you listen to the water supply officer neighbor in the one above.
About 30 people were treated at hospitals for smoke inhalation after a fire erupted at a Long Island apartment building.
Newsday says firefighters used high-rise ladder buckets to rescue residents who screamed for help through their open windows.
Two firefighters were treated for heat exhaustion. More than 300 firefighters from 30 volunteer departments were at the scene.
The fire was reported just after 6 p.m. at 590 Fulton Ave.
Chief George Sandas, a spokesman for the Hempstead Fire Department explained the difficulty that responders faced in dealing with the blaze.
“The thing that hampered us was that it auto exposed where it comes out a window, second floor goes to third floor, went to the fourth floor, so at one time we had four floors of actual fire,” he said.
One of many pictures you will find at FirstOnScenePhotos by Lou Minutoli.
The fire began inside a single apartment unit on the second floor of a seven-story building. The blaze quickly spread throughout the floor and then to multiple floors of the building, according to fire officials.
Neighbors witnessing the fire said several firefighters were on ladders helping people stranded in the upper floors of the building. Flames could be seen from the street level and thick, black smoke rose toward the sky.
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