Fire Breaks Out In UES Apartment Building

Upper East Side NY

16 October, 2020

4:58 PM

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UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — No injuries were reported in a fire that broke out Friday afternoon on the top floor of an Upper East Side apartment building. The fire was reported at 3:27 p.m. on the fifth floor of 126 East 83rd St., a five-story building between Park and Lexington Avenues — just one door down from the New York Republican County Committee headquarters. Video from the scene showed flames and plumes of smoke billowing out of two top-floor windows, as firetruck sent a crewmember up on a ladder to fight the blaze at a closer distance. About 60 crew members at the scene had the fire under control by 4:06 p.m., an FDNY spokesperson said. The cause was not immediately clear.