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Firefighters try to extinguish the fire in the Middle Collegiate Church and the adjecent building. The main office of Selfreliance N.Y. is located in the grey building on the right.
NEW YORK – A massive fire that destroyed a historic church in the heart of the Ukrainian neighborhood in the East Village here on December 5 also resulted in physical damage to the Selfreliance New York Federal Credit Union’s main office at 108 Second Avenue.
Bohdan Kurczak, president and CEO of the credit union, said that the fire did not spread to the building at 108 Second Avenue. However, firefighters needed to access the credit union’s roof in their effort to extinguish the six-alarm inferno, which was first reported just before 5 a.m.