Photos: Raging Hempstead (NY) Apartment Fire

April 21, 2021
ByFire Engineering Staff

Photos and info from FirstOnScenePhotos

Firefighters responded to a raging fire yesterday in the town of Hempstead on Long Island, New York. Residents of the apartment house were forced into the streets after a fire occurred on the sixth floor of their seven-story building at 380 Front Street on Tuesday afternoon, April 20, 2021.

Village fire units were called to the scene just before 2:30pm and found flames shooting from several sixth-floor windows.

Engine companies operated from the building’s standpipe system to knock down the flames. Mutual aid companies from several surrounding communities assisted at the scene.

  • Firefighters at work at an apartment fire in Hempstead, New York, with flames ripping from balcony
  • Smoke and flames on balcony with multiple aerials working
  • Fire burns on balcony at multi-story apartment in Hempstead with tower ladder and aerial ladder operating
  • An array of aerial devices set up at apartment fire scene
  • Flames and black smoke billow from the upper floor of an apartment with an aerial ladder reaching to the roof

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