Thick smoke hung over Bushwick Tuesday after firefighters rushed to extinguish a six-alarm fire that raged through five row houses on DeKalb Avenue between Wilson and Knickerbocker avenues in the evening’s strong wind.
An FDNY spokesperson tells Bushwick Daily that the fire, which was first reported shortly after 10 p.m., started at 1427 DeKalb Ave., where it eventually consumed the roof of the three-story building. Dramatic videos of the fire posted to social media show an inferno roaring from the top of the three story building, which is adjacent to the nine-story apartment building at 1433 DeKalb Ave.
The fire took just over three hours to bring under control, with 201 firefighters, 50 pieces of FDNY apparatus, including helicopters and enough FDNY response vehicles to line the block.
