Greater New York Fire News.

Greater New York Fire News.

The other afternoon South Brooklyn had five fires burning at the same time. Two of the houses were burned down before the firemen could get to them, and all the five were finally destroyed. Two were set ablaze by flying sparks from houses. The sparks were carried by the wind across vacant lots. Three were in Fortythird and Forty-fourth streets, Borough Park. The combined loss was $15,000, and one of the houses was burned out from roof to cellar. Two alarms were rung in for these fires, which brought out all the firemen in Borough Park and Parkville. The neighborhood turned out in numbers to see the spectacle. While they were trying to see all there was to the three fires, they saw smoke from two other spots, one about a quarter of a mile away and another about half a mile away. The fourth fire was at Coney Island and Foster avenue, where a large toolhouse of the Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad was burning up. The fifth was in a big barn at Gravesend avenue and avenue IT. in which were fourteen horses. Battalion Chief Howe, doing duty at the three Borough Park and Parkville fires, asked the firemen of Coney Island and Bath Beach to attend to the fourth and fifth. They took their apparatus to the barn and the toolhouse; but they were in ruins when the firemen arrived. The fourteen horses, however, had been saved.

The city intends to place a steamer in the quarters now occupied by hose company No. 5 on John street, near Fulton street, Jamaica, borough cf Queens.