2 Early Morning Fires Break Out On Upper West Side: FDNY

Upper West Side NY

10 December, 2020

10:40 AM

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UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Two fires broke out on the Upper West Side less than 30 blocks apart early Thursday morning. At 5:09 a.m., a fire sparked in the fourth floor of an apartment building at 143 West 80th Street, according to the FDNY. Firefighters put the blaze under control by 5:39 a.m., and there were no injuries. An hour and 16 minutes later, a different fire started at 250 West 106th Street. The second alarm blaze required 106 firefighters to battle the flames, and the fire was under control by 7:08 a.m., according to the FDNY. The address is the location of the neighborhood gym BodyStrength Fitness. The FDNY told Patch that there were also no injuries. The Thursday morning neighborhood fires follow two major blazes that took place on the Upper West Side in the second half of November, including one that injured 12 people in an apartment building on Riverside Drive. City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, who represents Upper Manhattan, recently unveiled a bill that would install portable fire extinguishers in a common area on every New York City apartment building floor with at least one occupied unit. Rodriguez introduced the bill after a different deadly fire in Washington Heights killed two people in November.