NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Twenty residents were trapped on a roof and others were stuck inside when a four-alarm fire broke out at a high-rise apartment building on Manhattan’s West Side, the FDNY said.
The fire started around 4:55 p.m. Thursday at 515 West 59th Street near the intersection with 10th Avenue.
Something big going down by the Duane Reade building on 10th & 59th!! #fire @PIX11News @NY1 #news #emergency #nyc @fox5ny pic.twitter.com/WGVViGBr92
— Veronica E Bruno (@highvalueimages) December 22, 2016
Big fire across from my building on W.60th St. @billritter7 @ABC7NY pic.twitter.com/sIVtCbU6by
— Harold Abrams (@haroldabrams) December 22, 2016
Fire officials said six people suffered non-life-threatening injuries, including three firefighters.
Some residents and concerned relatives sent frantic tweets as they waited for word that help was on the way.
https://twitter.com/trulyshruti/status/812060934990680069
Witnesses told CBS2’s Tracee Carrasco they believe the fire started in a third floor apartment.
Fire Traps Residents On Roof Of West Side Apartment Building
Anyone who lives there is rich. Lock the doors from the outside and let it burn.