Greater than 100 firefighters and emergency personnel are battling a multi-alarm fireplace that broke in a Brooklyn church Wednesday morning.
The fireplace broke out within the pentecostal church Arca Cristiana positioned at Halsey Road, between Central and Wilson avenues, round 10:43 a.m., within the Bushwick part of Brooklyn, in accordance with the FDNY.
Everybody has been evacuated from the church. There are not any reported accidents, the hearth division mentioned, including that 25 items totaling 106 fireplace and EMS personnel are on scene.
FDNY members are at the moment working at a 3-alarm fireplace on Halsey Road in Brooklyn. pic.twitter.com/XR9Hg129Rg
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Citizen App video taken from a few blocks away from the scene reveals a darkish plume of smoke billowing into the air as emergency autos are in view.
NYCEM is warning the general public within the space of smoke and visitors delays. They’re asking residents to shut their home windows because of the smoke.
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