{"id":120632,"date":"2026-02-02T22:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120632\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T22:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:29:29","slug":"nyc-buildings-department-issues-vacate-orders-after-staten-island-fire-injures-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120632\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Buildings Department issues vacate orders after Staten Island fire injures 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Following a destructive three-alarm blaze that injured multiple people Friday,<\/a> the city Department of Buildings has issued full vacate orders for the properties that were impacted by the fire.<\/p>\n

According to the department, their inspectors were called by the FDNY following the fire to conduct a structural stability inspection of the affected properties.<\/p>\n

While at 248 Elverton Ave., inspectors observed major structural fire damage throughout the 2-story, semi-attached, single-family home, a spokesman for the Department of Buildings told the Advance\/SILive.com. The fire created severe damage to the roof and the party wall shared with the neighboring home.<\/p>\n

\"Three-alarmA three-alarm fire broke out at 250 Elverton Ave. in Great Kills on Jan 30, 2026.(Steve White for the Advance\/SILive.com)<\/p>\n

Structural fire damage was also observed by the same department inspectors at 250 Elverton Ave., the neighboring 2-story, single-family home, where the second floor collapsed onto the first floor.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result of the fire, DOB has issued Full Vacate Orders at 248 and 250 Elverton Ave., and issued orders for the installation of a fence around the two fire-damaged buildings,\u201d the spokesperson revealed.<\/p>\n

There was also additional non-structural fire damage to the vinyl siding of 254 Elverton Ave., Great Kills.<\/p>\n

First responders on scene informed DOB that there were 6 minor injuries and one moderate injury associated with this fire, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, DOB engineers returned to the scene to meet with the property owners and agency partners to discuss next steps needed to protect the public from the fire-damaged buildings. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be following up with the owners on this work,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n

\"Three-alarmA three-alarm fire broke out at 250 Elverton Ave. in Great Kills on Jan 30, 2026.(Steve White for the Advance\/SILive.com)Saturday night fire<\/p>\n

The fire broke out on Jan. 31 around 11:23 p.m., at 250 Elverton Ave., which is situated on a dead-end street off Leverett Avenue in Great Kills, a spokesperson for the FDNY previously told the Advance\/SILive.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

Flames tore through the 2.5 story private dwelling and strengthened to the point where a second alarm was declared at 11:42 p.m.<\/p>\n

As noted by the spokesperson at the time, at 12:44 a.m. Saturday, the Elverton Avenue fire demanded a third alarm.<\/p>\n

The flames were brought under control by 2:53 a.m.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, one civilian and two firefighters were taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the FDNY said.<\/p>\n

The Department of Buildings was requested due to a partial collapse of the structure. However, the FDNY spokesperson explained that none of the injuries were sustained from this collapse.<\/p>\n

Initial reports said five people, including two firefighters, were injured. A total of seven people were hurt, said Buildings, citing the FDNY.<\/p>\n

A freelancer for the Advance\/SILive.com said he saw a wall collapse within the structure. Fire personnel was subsequently withdrawn from the house to continue combatting the blaze from the exterior, he added.<\/p>\n

Photos from the scene depicted a massive emergency response. An orange glow was seen through the smoke billowing from openings in the structure. The exterior visibly suffered severe charring and structural damage.<\/p>\n

\"Three-alarmA three-alarm fire broke out at 250 Elverton Ave. in Great Kills on Jan 30, 2026.(Steve White for the Advance\/SILive.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Following a destructive three-alarm blaze that injured multiple people Friday, the city Department of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-120632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}