Brooklyn warehouse firing burning for 20 hours and counting

[KevinNYC]

The warehouse is basically stuffed with fuel. It a storage area that holds files from several city agencies and other companies. 4 million boxes stuffed with paper are fueling this fire.

[ace23]

Nice

[Bandito]

Storage files? Who still uses papers?

[Meticode]

Storage files? Who still uses papers?

Humans, me, you, everyone.

[cuad]

Twenty hours? That's impossible. It should have collapsed by now.

[KevinNYC]

Twenty hours? That's impossible. It should have collapsed by now.

At least 30 hours so far



They say firefighters will need to be on the site for weeks, because even after it's out the embers will smolder for quite a while.

The FDNY has 55 units & 275 firefighters responding to the 7-alarm fire in Brooklyn.

[KevinNYC]

half burned documents are being found in other neighborhoods.

[niko]

I've driven to manhattan and back twice during this period and haven't noticed a whiff of smoke. Weird. Must be blowing the other way.

[KevinNYC]

I've driven to manhattan and back twice during this period and haven't noticed a whiff of smoke. Weird. Must be blowing the other way.

As you can see from that first picture it's well north of the Williamsburg bridge, let alone the Brooklyn Bridge and the smoke isn't crossing the river. It's blowing towards greenpoint and bushwick

I think the main fire is out now. Fireboat rainbow

[Lamar Doom]

Who still uses papers?

I do

[SexSymbol]

Why are the firemen covered in Ice, they have a huge campfire near them

[KevinNYC]

Warehouse went right up to the water and they are now fishing documents out of the East River

[KevinNYC]

[D-FENS]

Looks like Godzilla splooged all over everything

[KevinNYC]

FDNY:

"This is going to smolder for quite some time," he said.