14 Injured, No Causalties So Far in Chinatown Blaze
By Fatima Seraj
14 people were said to be injured in a blaze in Chinatown that had reached seven alarm status shortly after Monday morning.
The Chinatown fire, which started in a six-storey building at 285 Grand Street, a residential building anchored by a storefront, was first reported at around 10 p.m. on Sunday.
More than 250 fire fighters and 60 Fire Department vehicles attended to the call. Flames burst 20 to 30 feet from the roof. Three ladders had been put up against the building, and a few dozen fire fighters waited to be sent in, five at a time. Hundreds of people stopped to watch the blaze on the cool spring night. The fire also spread to the nearby buildings.
The cause of fire is still unknown and investigations are going on.
