Brooklyn rabbi among 5 people hurt in kitchen fire above synagogue

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Neighbors say the victims were likely up early cooking for a big wedding celebration this weekend.

NEW YORK -- Five people were hurt, two critically, when a fire broke out early Friday morning at an apartment above a synagogue in Brooklyn. Firefighters responded around 6:15 a.m. to 60th Street between 18th and 19th avenues in Mapleton. Investigators say it was an accidental kitchen fire that started inside a second floor apartment. 'The building fire started on the second floor in the kitchen,' FDNY Deputy Chief Gregg Hansson said on the scene.

'A rabbi and another residents from the second floor were hospitalized, along with three people from the third floor, who had to be rescued through a window with a ladder and bucket because thick smoke was blocking any other way out.'They took three people out of the third floor with a bucket,' Hansson said. 'We had five overall patients.

 

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