UPDATE [Images/Video in Extended Article]
Yesterday at around 3:30 PM, a fire broke out in a building that houses a beis medrash on our campus. Baruch Hashem nobody was injured. Our bachurim were out in force across the tri-state area, raising funds for indigent families, and the campus was mostly empty.
The blaze has caused significant damage to the Yeshiva’s legendary ‘Waterview’ building, a 1956 structure that is currently home to the ‘New Mesivta beis medrash,’ which serves approximately 200 bachurim in grades 9, 10, and 11. (The 12th grade, Beis Medrash, and Kollel talmidim learn in the iconic red brick Mesivta Chaim Shlomo building at the corner of Seagirt Boulevard and Beach 17th Street, which was untouched by the flames.) The Sefer Torah is safe, but the building sustained damage due to the fire itself as well as the subsequent work of the heroic New York City fire department personnel, who arrived within minutes. Many sefarim, in addition to the hats and jackets of bachurim, were damaged.
By nightfall, the bachurim were back on campus, singing and dancing at the Yeshiva’s annual Purim mesiba, and the Beis Medrash and Kollel divisions will, Im Yirtzeh Hashem, resume learning on schedule today with Second Seder. Plans are in place to relocate the davening and learning for the affected grades elsewhere on the campus while the necessary repairs and renovations take place.
A Donation page has been set up to help with the damage, click here.
Video Credit Citizen.com
Fire in School @CitizenApp
257 Beach 17th St Yesterday 4:01:20 PM EDT
crazy baruch hashem noone was inside at time of fire