High-Rise Fire in Crown Heights: FDNY Transmits a 10-77 at St Marks and Troy — Primary Searches Negative, Cause Undetermined
The FDNY transmitted a 10-77 all-hands fire late Friday morning for a 14-story housing-authority multiple dwelling at St Marks Avenue and Troy Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Primary searches on the fire floor and the floor above came back negative, a hazmat team was requested for lithium-ion batteries, and field communications later reported a suspicious fire with an undetermined cause.
The Fire Department transmitted a 10-77 — its signal for a fire in a high-rise residential building — late Friday morning in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The phone alarm for Box 918 gave the address as 162 Troy Avenue, between St Marks Avenue and Prospect Place. Units reported a fire on the first floor of a multiple dwelling at 11:02 AM Eastern, and an all-hands assignment was transmitted and confirmed minutes later for a New York City Housing Authority multiple dwelling described over the radio as 14 stories and 150 by 150 feet. Battalion 28 and Battalion 38 were among the units heard on the call.
The searches are the file's most important fact, and they came back clear. Battalion 38 reported the primary search completely negative on the fire floor and the floor above at 11:10 AM, and Division 15 reported primary searches of the fire floor and the fire apartment negative at 11:18 AM. Division 15 also requested a hazmat team for lithium-ion batteries — a request this desk reports as a request, not as a finding about what caused the fire. Medical branch resources and modified breathing-apparatus fast-pack pilot units also responded. No death or injury has been confirmed by officials in the file read this cycle, and this desk reports none.
Where the fire stands is narrower than where it started. Field communications reported at 11:32 AM Eastern that the fire was suspicious, with an undetermined cause, and that the unit was taking up — the radio file's last word this cycle. A suspicious-fire report from the scene is the start of a fire-marshal investigation, not a conclusion, and no official has announced a cause, an arrest, or a patient count.
This is the second all-hands residential fire the desk's incident check found on Friday's file — an early-morning cockloft fire in a Queens private dwelling (Box 6577, 77th Road and 150th Street) was knocked down with searches negative and a patient count of zero reported over the radio, its operations complete by 7:25 AM Eastern. This desk follows the Crown Heights case for the fire marshals' determination and any official patient information, and files an update the moment officials confirm more.
