UPPER WEST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) — Three residents and three firefighters were hurt during a four-alarm fire on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
The fire broke out inside a building on West 107th Street and Amsterdam Avenue just before 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Flames could be seen shooting through the roof and top floor.
Citizen App video captures a 4-alarm fire burning through an Upper West Side apartment building.
Three residents and three firefighters were taken to area hospitals with minor injuries.
“We had one occupant that we found on the top floor and our firefighters were able to walk that occupant down to the street and hand over to EMS,” said Chief of Operations Kevin Woods, FDNY. “We had another occupant on the third floor that we walked down and handed to EMS.”
The building is six stories and said to be a non-fireproof. The roof partially collapsed.
“We established a collapse zone so no one walks beneath that area because we anticipate further collapse of that cornice,” Woods said.
Woods said that the FDNY had to work with the Department of Sanitation to spread salt on the sidewalk. Many people fell on the ice as water from the hose line froze on the ground.
The Red Cross said it is assisting 34 residents, including four children, from 17 households.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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