Five firefighters were injured in a four-alarm fire Tuesday morning at a lumber yard in Brooklyn, New York City.
The fire started at a lumber storage warehouse at 304 Hewes Street, in Williamsburg, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, according to the New York City Fire Department (FDNY).
The FDNY said a call came in about the fire at 10:51 a.m.
The fire had initially started as a two-alarm fire but was later determined to be a four-alarm fire—a particularly intense fire.
“When units arrived, they found fire in a large commercial building containing a lot of lumber. The fire spread to an adjacent 3-story building, There is no report of [civilian] injuries,” the department stated in a Twitter post. Accompanying video showed ample smoke rising quickly out of multiple windows in a three-story building….