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John Del Signore
Published Jul 2, 2010
Modified Jul 2, 2010
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A two alarm fire tore through a 4-story building in Williamsburg this morning. Nobody was injured, and ordinarily this probably wouldn't merit mention, but this video of the fire is pretty intense:
The building is located on Devoe between Leonard and Lorimer, and right behind an apartment occupied by Brian Ries, who writes for Free Williamsburg. He liveblogged the fire, and said, "Upstairs neighbor can see a burned out jeep in the lot next to the library, directly alongside the wall where the fire started in the building…Everybody is safe according to the FDNY guys. Can’t ask for a much better turnout than that." (Though it would have kicked the video up a notch if the building at least had some M80s inside.) The FDNY put it out in 18 minutes, according to Ries.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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