Massive fire engulfs NYC supermarket, spreads to 4 buildings, injuring 7 and displacing 30 residents
NY Post
A massive fire tore through a Brooklyn supermarket Wednesday evening, injuring seven people and displacing about 30 residents as it quickly spread to four neighboring apartment buildings.
The blaze began just before 6 p.m. inside Christa’s Kitchen & Market on Bushwick Avenue in Bushwick and grew to at least a five-alarm fire with over 250 smoke-eaters responding, FDNY officials said at the scene.
The seven wounded all suffered minor injuries and included six firefighters — five of whom were transported to local hospitals — and a civilian who was being treated for smoke inhalation at the scene.
“This fire impacted this community, not only the supermarket that they use but the residents of this community in four different buildings,” FDNY First Deputy Commissioner Joseph Pfeifer told reporters at the scene. “And our hearts go out to those residents.”
The flames — described as “a very significant amount of fire” by FDNY brass — began in the food store and soon engulfed two adjoining buildings to its left and at least two buildings behind it on Cooper Street.
Despite the first firefighters arriving within three minutes of the 911 call, the attached, older buildings made of wooden structures went up like a matchstick.
