NEW YORK — Two firefighters and an FDNY lieutenant were seriously injured Friday when a massive blaze tore through a pair of homes in a Staten Island duplex, causing a section of the building to collapse, fire officials said.
“I cannot emphasize enough that this was a very close call for the FDNY,” Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said at a news conference. “We could have lost three members today.”
The fire erupted inside the two-story structure on Shotwell Avenue near Waring Avenue in Arden Heights at about 1:30 p.m. and quickly raged out of control.
