Seven-Alarm Blaze at Brooklyn Storage Company

Ten hours after the fire started at 6:20 a.m., large orange flames still jumped from the roof of the building, and smoke filled with black chunks of ash blew east, shrouding several blocks of the Williamsburg waterfront.

No one was injured in the blaze, which was being fought on land and from fire boats by 275 firefighters.

“They’re wet, they’re cold,” Fire Chief James Leonard said in the late afternoon, “but they’re out there doing their job.”

The state court system and the city’s hospitals are among the agencies that store records in the warehouse.

Chief Leonard said that the stacks of paper records were fueling the fire at the CitiStorage building at 5 North 11th Street near Kent Avenue, preventing firefighters from getting inside.

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