UpdatedFri, Oct 5, 2018 at 9:02 pm ET
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EAST VILLAGE, NY The First Avenue building that was ravaged by a six-alarm blaze Wednesday and took firefighters more than ten hours to extinguish will not need to be demolished but a back yard extension of the Japanese restaurant in the building s ground floor must be razed due to severe fire damage, according to the city s Department of Buildings.
Concerns about the property s structural stability stymied the FDNY s efforts to put out the flames, forcing firefighters to retreat from the 188 First Avenue building and allow the fire to partially burn its self out as they bombarded the blaze with water.
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