BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Video shows NY firefighters battling a two-alarm warehouse basement blaze where at least two maydays were reported and five firefighters were injured.
The Tuesday evening fire took 106 firefighters nearly an hour to control, according to the New York Post.
Three of the injured firefighters were hospitalized and are now in stable condition with the other two treated at the scene.
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