Big fire in Brooklyn - 2am Sunday
Woke up at 2am to the smell of smoke. After checking realized it was coming from outside. From the roof I saw the whole neighborhood seemed thick with smoke. There were certainly sirens. Found this great link but it still isn’t clear (Gowanus or smoke from Jersey)… http://www.thebravest.com/brooklyn/brooklyn.htm Anyone know what’s going on?
Woke up at 2am to the smell of smoke. After checking realized it was coming from outside. From the roof I saw the whole neighborhood seemed thick with smoke. There were certainly sirens. Found this great link but it still isn’t clear (Gowanus or smoke from Jersey)…
http://www.thebravest.com/brooklyn/brooklyn.htm
Anyone know what’s going on?
I smelled it as well about 2 AM. Looked up and down the block to make sure it wasn’t in the immediate area.
That’s what that smell was? I’m in Carroll Gardens and I woke up sometime in the middle of the night smelling that and my windows were closed.
I got a text message from OEM about it at 3:10am:
“There is a three alarm fire in Jersey City, New Jersey. As a result, Brooklyn residents may see or smell smoke.”
The smoke smell woke me up at 3 a.m. in Cobble Hill and my husband and I went outside and walked around the neighborhood trying to locate the source. We couldn’t find any news online or on TV about the cause. Finally, I located a couple of online posts saying that the smoke was from a tire recycling facility in Jersey City, and we were able to return to bed around 4. Even this morning, there was nothing on the NY Times website or NYC.gov that I could locate. I found a very short, about four sentences, piece on Gothamist.com and much later there was a brief mention on NY1.