Fire in Basement of Shul in Crown Heights
By Hamodia Staff
A fire broke out on Sunday at approximately 1:00 p.m. at Bais Eliyahu Nochum, a shul in Crown Heights located at 672 Lefferts Avenue between Albany and Troy Avenues.
Firefighters quickly arrived with multiple trucks and extinguished the flames. The fire was contained to the basement of the shul where a mikvah for men is situated. It is assumed that the fire started in the mechanical apparatus of the mikvah, Shomrim told Hamodia.
All the sifrei Torah in the shul were located on the first floor and were brought to safety.
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