Crime & Safety
WATCH: Brooklyn Trash Fire Fills Streets With Smoke
No one was injured in the blaze, fire officials said.
Screenshot via @rogerbooyou/Twitter
FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN — A fire in a trash compactor at Fort Greene’s affordable Ingersoll Houses filled the neighborhood with billows of smoke late Monday afternoon.
The fire at 132 Navy Walk broke out around 4:40 p.m. and was brought under control within 15 minutes, fire officials said.
A spokesman for the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) called it a ”small compacter fire with no injuries.”
Twitter user @rogerbooyou, who filmed the smoke cloud (video below), said on Twitter that Myrtle Avenue appeared to be closed off between Flatbush Avenue and Ashland Place around 5 p.m.
Earlier Monday morning, a massive apartment fire broke out about three miles northeast in Williamsburg, killing two of the building’s residents. More on that fire here.
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