News:Two Are Dead After a Fire in Brooklyn (New York: transplants, renting)

[Ron.]

By ANAHAD O’CONNOR
Published: May 14, 2011

Two people were killed on Friday night when a fast-moving fire engulfed the top floor of a building in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, the authorities said. Read More.

[D. Scott]

Tragic...there seems to be an increase in building fires during the last year...This is excluding the illegal apts that have been in the news lately. Awful

[gvillager]

Bloomberg wants to close up to 20 firehouses.

Captain Al Hagan, head of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association, Calls Potential Fire Company Closures 'Civic Insanity' « CBS New York

[jcoltrane]

None of this is news!

Bushwick has been burning for DECADES!

It generally has the most terrific fires. Old wood frame buildings, poor wiring, connected shared walls, connected attic areas (fires spread from building to building this way), ignorant residents, equals inordinate fire danger.

Again, been this way for decades.

Staffing of the FDNY will have little bearing on the dangers of Bushwick.

Tragic, perhaps. News? Not in the least.

The only difference going forward than in the past is that it may be a few white Transplants getting their asses burnt up, along with usual brown people.

Nnexxxttt....

Welcome to NYC.

[Northwindsforever]

True. Bushwick has been burning since the blackout in 1977.

ALOTS of fires in Bushwick on You Tube. Check them out!

[cottMAN98405cc]

Death house an illegal SRO
The Brooklyn building where two men died in a devastating fire was an illegal SRO run like a flophouse for vagrants, officials and neighbors said yesterday.
As many as 10 people were living in the three-story building -- legally a duplex -- at 16 Covert St. in Bushwick. Records show that the city responded to complaints in 2010, but officials were denied access.



from new york post, link here:
Fatal fire was in illegal SRO - NYPOST.com


and


Illegal Brooklyn boarding house went up in flames after hot plate sparked blaze
As many as 10 people were renting rooms in an illegal Brooklyn boarding house where two men died in a raging inferno - one by plunging out of a window after a ladder was too short to reach him, residents said.

from new york daily news, link here: Illegal Brooklyn boarding house went up in flames after hot plate sparked blaze


Looks like they were more to this story then just some fire.