Fire in Brooklyn manhole consumes Subaru SUV, spreads to nearby apartment building

A Thanksgiving Day electrical occurrence that started successful a manhole connected a Brooklyn thoroughfare rapidly engulfed a conveyance parked supra it — past caused flames to erupt successful a fourth-floor flat successful a adjacent building, FDNY officials said Thursday.

The two-alarm blaze began successful a manhole connected Remsen St. adjacent Hicks St. successful Brooklyn Heights astir noon and consumed a metallic Subaru SUV parked nearby, FDNY Deputy Chief Stephen Corcoran said.

“We were successful the process of suppressing the flames beneath the car and besides checking the surrounding properties for c monoxide oregon immoderate hold into the buildings,” said Corcoran astatine the scene. “At that constituent occurrence broke retired connected the 4th level of [a] building.”

A metallic Subaru SUV parked extracurricular of 73 Remsen St. caught connected occurrence and burned to a crisp successful Brooklyn connected Thursday Nov. 28, 2024. A fourth-floor flat crossed the thoroughfare astatine 76 Remsen St. past burst into flames a fewer minutes later.  (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

The FDNY said 25 units responded to the 12:05 p.m. fire, with 106 occurrence and EMS unit connected scene. No injuries were reported.

Three hours later, operations were inactive ongoing, and a origin for the archetypal electrical occurrence had yet to beryllium determined.

“The origin of the occurrence successful the building, which we’re assuming is correlated to the electrical occurrence successful the street, is inactive nether investigation,” said Corcoran.

Residents and pets tally from occurrence astatine 76 Remsen St. successful Brooklyn connected Thursday Nov. 28, 2024. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

Electrical fires are particularly hard to enactment out, said Corcoran, and firefighters had to hold for Con Edison to get and unopen disconnected powerfulness to the building.

Extensive occurrence harm occurred successful the fourth-floor unit, and occupants weren’t capable to instrumentality Thursday.

Firefighters respond to  a blaze astatine 76 Remsen St. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

Three buildings were evacuated, 1 owed to the occurrence and 2 due to the fact that precocious amounts of c monoxide were detected.

“We are going to stay connected the country until those c monoxide levels are reduced to zero,” said Corcoran, adding that erstwhile the levels were harmless residents could instrumentality to the buildings undamaged by the blaze.

While the occurrence ruined Thanksgiving plans for dozens of residents, astatine slightest 1 household forced to evacuate had thing to beryllium grateful for.

“It’s an highly distressing concern but particularly connected a vacation similar Thanksgiving,” said Corcoran. “We were capable to spell successful and prevention their Thanksgiving meal and battalion up their nutrient for them and springiness it them truthful they could instrumentality it to a relative’s location and bask it there.”