On the night of July 4, Williamsburg got its own pyrotechnics show, only this year it wasn’t over the East River—it was at the site of the Rosenwach Wood Tank Company on Wythe Avenue, where a two-alarm fire broke out at around 9 p.m. According to commenters on Gothamist, the blaze started on the company’s North 9th Street lot where the company constructs roof-top water tanks. According to two local blogs, a group of twenty-somethings (“white kids in the twenties,” according to 11211 or “hipster douchebags,” according to NYShitty) were setting off roman candles right next to the lot. In addition to stacks of wood, there was a large pile of sawdust which would have made quite a combo with a stray firework. The photo above shows how the site looked yesterday and the video on the jump shows some live action from the night-of.
Two-Alarm Fire On Wythe Avenue In Williamsburg [Gothamist]
Video: Williamsburg Fire [Flickr] GMAP