A total of 10 people, including civilians and responding FDNY personnel, were injured as a result of a three-alarm fire in Marble Hill on Monday afternoon.
Responding units arrived at 36 Marble Hill Ave. just after 2:30 p.m. on March 11 to find heavy fire venting from the first, second and third floors. Battalion 19 warned all incoming units of the interior stairwell being compromised and heavy fire conditions in multiple apartments.
More than 135 FDNY personnel members were in the process of utilizing four hose-lines to knock down the main of fire. Hazmat Company 1 and Hazmat Battalion were specially called to removed multiple burning e-bike and lithium ion batteries from the building.
Squad company 41 was used to check the integrity of the building after the fire was knocked down at approximately 3:45 p.m.
According to FDNY fire marshals, the fire was caused by a lithium-ion battery.
“An E-bike frame & battery remnants were recovered under the 1st-floor stairwell where the fire originated, trapping residents & forcing others to use the fire escape,” the FDNY said Tuesday morning in a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Editor’s note: This story was updated at 9:25 a.m. with a statement from the FDNY.
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