New York’s Staten Island. A three-alarm fire in Ft. Wadsworth on Wednesday morning injured a firefighter and two others.
The citizens and the firefighter were taken to Ocean Breeze’s Staten Island University Hospital. According to an FDNY/EMS spokesperson, everyone is expected to recover from their injuries.
The two-story, 20-by-40-foot house at 51 Hope Lane, next to Tompkins Avenue, was reported to be on fire at 2:08 a.m.
According to the FDNY spokesman, the fire was put out more than two hours later, at 4:45 a.m., after about 33 units and 138 fire and EMS personnel went to the scene.
The cause of the fire is still being looked into.
According to emergency radio contacts, the fire swiftly spread to the house’s first and second levels.
As further details become available, they will be provided. This is a developing story.
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