Fire consumed a strip of storefront businesses Sunday morning in Upper Manhattan, and the flames ate their way through the roof of the building as smoke spewed into the air.
As CBS2’s Hazel Sanchez reported, six firefighters were injured fighting the extra-alarm blaze in Inwood. Towering flames shot into the sky above a row of businesses on Nagle Avenue near Thayer Street – near the Dyckman Street station on the elevated section of the No. 1 train – just after 10 a.m.
Huge clouds of smoke billowed into the air, and their smell filled the neighborhood as far north as Isham Street and Sherman Avenue more than half a mile away.
“We had heavy fire at arrival. We special-called two tower ladders immediately to get water on the fire, and within six minutes, it went to a second alarm,” said FDNY Chief James Hodgens.