Three-alarm fire tears through a row of Dyker Heights shops
A three-alarm fire ripped through a row of stores on a commercial strip of 11th Avenue in Dyker Heights, decimating the shops and injuring three firefighters Monday night, according to the Fire Department.
The burned out stores are located in a row of shops on a block on 11th Avenue between 62nd and 63rd Streets.
Seven shops – including a dry cleaner, a pharmacy, and a laundromat – were in the path of the fire, which began on late at night on June 10 and raged for nearly 90 minutes, into the early morning of June 11, before firefighters were able to bring it under control, officials said. It took more than 150 firefighters to battle the blaze, officials said.