BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) A fire tore through a synagogue that operates out of a home in Brooklyn Wednesday morning, and the 101-year-old mother of a local politician and two children were among those rescued from the burning structure.
The flames broke out just before 8 a.m. at the Congregation Bais Aharon on 18th Avenue in Borough Park, at the synagogue founded by State Senator Simcha Felder s late father in the 1950s. We had a fire in the first floor of a two-story house of worship, FDNY Deputy Chief James Boylan said. Members removed three people from the second floor, a mother and two children. Hatzolah Ambulance Services removed State Senator Felder s mother from the first floor prior to units arrival. She was removed in a wheelchair. Everybody is doing OK.
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