Crime & Safety
Fire Breaks Out In Fort George Hours After Inwood Blaze
Hours after an Inwood blaze on Monday, a second Upper Manhattan building fire left a resident with serious injuries, according to FDNY.
FORT GEORGE, NY — A fire broke out in a Fort George building Monday hours after different flames tore through a home in Inwood, according to the FDNY.
The second Upper Manhattan blaze ignited at 7:47 p.m. on the second and third floor of a six-story building at 35 Hillside Avenue in Fort George, according to the FDNY.
An FDNY spokesperson told Patch that it took 60 firefighters to put the flames out in a little under an hour.
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However, there was one serious but not life-threatening injury to one of the building's residents, according to the FDNY.
The Fort George fire broke out five hours after a different blaze ignited around 3:15 p.m. on two floors of a five-story residential Inwood building at 184 Nagle Avenue.
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The Inwood fire took over 100 firefighters to put out and two residents had minor injuries, according to the FDNY.
The cause of both fires is under investigation.
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