Bronx fire leaves 2 men dead, spreads to Buddhist temple next door

A raging Bronx fire near 2 men dormant Wednesday morning and heavy damaged a Buddhist temple adjacent door, FDNY officials said.

For the 2nd clip this week, a parked conveyance was blocking the hydrant closest to the fatal blaze.

The three-alarm occurrence broke retired astir 6 a.m. successful a gathering connected Anthony Ave. adjacent E. Burnside Ave. and rapidly dispersed to 2 buildings, including the temple, FDNY officials said. Aerial footage of the blaze shows 1 of the buildings wholly consumed successful flames.

When firefighters got to the scene, they recovered a antheral believed to beryllium successful his 40s dormant successful the gathering wherever the blaze began, officials said. A antheral believed to beryllium betwixt 60 and 80 was pulled retired of the aforesaid buildings and rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, wherever helium died.

Parked cars blocked the 2 closest occurrence hydrants arsenic firefighters responded to a occurrence connected 80th St. successful Bay Ridge aboriginal Sunday. A 37-year-old antheral was killed and a pistillate and toddler critically wounded successful the blaze. (FDNY)

It took much than 130 firefighters and EMS unit astir 2 hours to bring the monolithic blaze nether control.

Firefighters had to snake hoses astir a reddish sedan blocking the nearest hydrant.

“The closest hydrant to the occurrence is blocked by parked cars,” the FDNY tweeted on with a photograph of the blocked hydrant.

The FDNY’s response to a fatal occurrence successful Bay Ridge, Brooklyn connected Sunday was slowed by a brace of SUVs blocking the 2 nearest occurrence hydrants. A Navy seasoned up for a enactment promotion and readying to bargain a location with his woman and household died successful the blaze, officials said.