A five-alarm Brooklyn house fire spread to three buildings and a church in mere minutes Sunday, an FDNY spokesman said.
The blaze started just before 6:30 p.m. at a home on Arlington Ave. by Elton St. in Cypress Hills, and the flames quickly jumped to two other houses and the exterior of a nearby Presbyterian church, an FDNY spokesman said.
FDNY work to put under control a 5th alarm fire in a private home in Brooklyn at 270 Arlington ave.
Firefighters put out the church fire, but the stubborn house fires kept them busy into the night, the spokesman said. Officials couldn’t immediately say if anyone was injured.
Earlier Sunday, a fearless smoke-eater rescued four kittens from a two-alarm blaze in the Bronx.
“It was smoky in the apartment, and I heard noise coming from the bay of the floorboards. It was the kittens, they were crying,” firefighter Vincent Martinelli of Ladder Co. 31, said in a statement on the FDNY’s Facebook page. “I found one, and then the others. They are so young. I’m glad we were able to get them out of there."
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