Crime & Safety
Fire In Wash Heights Apartment Building Sends 4 To Hospital: FDNY
A blaze at 286 Fort Washington Ave. sent four people to the hospital Thursday morning, an FDNY spokesperson told Patch.
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — Four people were hospitalized after a fire broke out in a Washington Heights apartment building Thursday morning, an FDNY spokesperson told Patch.
Firefighters rushed to the six-story building at Fort Washington Avenue and West 172nd Street about 6:20 a.m. the FDNY said.
A fire on the fifth floor was under control by about 7:15 a.m., but four residents sustained non-life-threatening injuries, said the FDNY.
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Medics took two injured residents to the Columbia NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital and two to Harlem Hospital, officials said.
FDNY did not specify how the fire started.
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The Upper Manhattan building at 286 Fort Washington Ave. is also home to the Washington Heights Urology and a Nocturnal Sleep Medical Group business.
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