A sad start to Christmas in Greenpoint.
On December 24, around 4:18 am, the FDNY responded to a report of a fire on the second floor of a Greenpoint residential building.
60 fire and EMS personnel arrived at a building between McGuinness Boulevard and Newel Street and contained the fire by 5:07 am. The Citizen app indicates that the building in question could be the Fade 2 Famous barber shop at 213 Greenpoint Avenue.
A building resident was taken to a local hospital with a serious, but not life-threatening injury. The FDNY tells Greenpointers that a firefighter refused medical attention.
According to ABC7, the cause of the fire is still under investigation.
Great scoop. The people at my senior center did not know anything about it today and they know everything.
Ironically I believe it is right next to the firehouse.