Firefighters battling a house fire in the Bronx, New York, on April 28, 2023. | Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images My family lives in a heavily-trafficked part of Brooklyn, and most nights you’ll hear the occasional whine of fire engine sirens through our living room window. But the torrent of sirens early on the morning of September 17 was enough to briefly rouse me from bed. I found out later that day that a five-alarm fire involving more than 200 firefighters had ripped through a 150-year-old artists’ warehouse in the neighboring area of Red Hook. It was one of the...

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