{"id":74669,"date":"2020-09-25T00:16:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T21:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/firefighters-find-hidden-cash-while-battling-nyc-home-blaze\/"},"modified":"2020-09-25T00:16:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T21:16:51","slug":"firefighters-find-hidden-cash-while-battling-nyc-home-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/firefighters-find-hidden-cash-while-battling-nyc-home-blaze\/","title":{"rendered":"#Firefighters find hidden cash while battling NYC home blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Firefighters find hidden cash while battling NYC home blaze<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        Forget the stock market, this is the hottest place to stash your cash.<\/p>\n<p>A team of firefighters in Brooklyn thought they had found mana from heaven when they cut through a ceiling while battling a house blaze Thursday and bundles of hidden cash started raining down on them, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was buried treasure basically,\u201d the FDNY source, who\u2019d been briefed on the unexpected bounty, gushed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just kept falling out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The smoke eaters had arrived at the home on E. 57th Street in Old Mill Basin just after 2 a.m. to put out the fire, which had started on the first floor of the 3-story brick row house, the FDNY said.<\/p>\n<p>When the FDNY members discovered that the flames had snaked their way into the ceiling of the home, they decided to cut through the overhead sheetrock to stamp it out, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when the sudden cash windfall started landing on their heads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a ton of cash, it just fell right out of the ceiling, pretty cool,\u201d the source said. \u201cIt was in bundles, it wasn\u2019t like in one solid brick, it just kept falling out.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16350666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped wp-image-16350666 lazyload\" alt=\"The scene of a house fire at 1190 East 57 Street in Flatlands, Brooklyn.\" width=\"662\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Fire2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Fire2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Fire2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Fire2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=662 662w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Fire2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1324 1324w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 662px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>The scene of a house fire at 1190 East 57 Street in Flatlands, Brooklyn.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Gregory P. Mango<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The cash, wr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed in plastic bags and tinfoil, could be as much as $1 million dollars, said the source, who was told it came from a resident\u2019s deceased husband\u2019s life insurance policy, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>The bundles were all filled with new hundred-dollar bills, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters gave the money to the police, who then gave it back to a woman who lived in the building, a source said.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD could not im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely confirm the sum of the money.<\/p>\n<p>When reached by phone, a relative of the resident said there was \u201clike $20k in tinfoil\u201d found in the ceiling but then insisted there was no money at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever they think they found, if they found money and they want to give it to us, give it to us,\u201d the relative insisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you find anything, give it to us! 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A team of firefighters in Brooklyn thought they had found mana from heaven when they cut through a ceiling while battling a house blaze Thursday and bundles of hidden cash started raining down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Fire3.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[72409,4950,61594,61184,70234,72587,72588,26219],"class_list":["post-74669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-9-24-20","tag-brooklyn","tag-exclusive","tag-fdny","tag-fires","tag-fortune","tag-money","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}