The historic Chinatown building in New York, New York, caught fire on Thursday (January 23).

Firefighters remained on the scene throughout the morning putting out the stubborn fire at 70 Mulberry Street and continued to douse the building more than 12 hours later.

On 1/23 around 845am smelled smoke from apt on 5th floor and saw cloud of smoke outside. called 911 to report fire on corner of Mulberry & Bayard in NYC Chinatown. Around 10pm heard upstairs neighbor open roof of our building I joined him to see that the roof caved in and the top 2 floors burning.

Watching from 5th floor apt building across the street of heroic FDNY saving a person using a ladder. He was the only person found at the time.