UPDATED: Massive Fire Rips Through Upper West Side Building

A large FDNY response rushed to 201 West 107th Street this morning after a fire broke out on the top floor of the six-story residential building between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway.

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Officials say the call came in at about 8:20 a.m. reporting flames on the top floor, with extension into the building’s cockloft — the attic-like space between the top story and the roof where fires can spread quickly.

The FDNY mobilized 40 units and about 140 fire and EMS personnel to the scene. A third alarm was transmitted at 8:34 a.m., followed by a fourth alarm at 9:10 a.m. as crews worked to contain the blaze.

The FDNY is operating at a 3-alarm fire at 201 West 107th Street in Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/S3l5x4P6xr

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The FDNY shared the following update at about 12 p.m.:

At 8:20 Tuesday morning, the FDNY responded to a 4-alarm fire at 201 West 107th Street in Manhattan. Units arrived in just over three minutes. Firefighters and Rescue Paramedics escorted two civilians out of the building to be treated by EMS. One Firefighter was treated for a minor burn injury.

This building is a six-story non-fireproof building with four apartments per floor. Upon arrival, we had heavy fire on the top floor and through the roof. Fire heavily involved three of those four apartments. The fourth apartment and some of the apartments below have heavy damage. We had a heavy collapse of the roof space into the top floor and also of the parapet wall into the street. The parapet wall is the extension of the exterior wall above the roof line. Our engine companies moved in very aggressively, and did extinguish a tremendous amount of fire, but due to the amount of fire and the structural stability, we had to remove them below that top floor and open up our tower ladders. These are large caliber streams, able to extinguish that fire,” said Chief of Fire Operations Kevin Woods.

The fire was placed under control at 10:30 a.m.

FDNY Fire Marshals are working to determine the cause of the fire.

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