CROWN HEIGHTS — Police recovered bullets, more than a dozen guns and a sword from a Crown Heights home this week after a fire erupted in the Buffalo Avenue home, police and FDNY officials said.
Emergency workers responded to the blaze at 55 Buffalo Ave. at Atlantic Avenue around 2 p.m. on Tuesday, putting out the fire in about 45 minutes, the FDNY said.
Upon investigating the fire, officials found a cache of weapons in the multi-family townhouse, including rifles, handguns, bullets and an old-fashioned sword with a decorative hilt, according to photos released online by the 77th Precinct.
#FDNY put out a 4 alarm fire🔥 that led to an assortment of firearms being recovered and a arrest #crownheights pic.twitter.com/KSoxlBgGv7
— NYPD 77th Precinct (@NYPD77Pct) March 9, 2016
One resident of the building, a 50-year-old man, was arrested on weapons charges after the discovery, according to a first report by the Daily News.
No one was injured in the fire, officials said, and its cause is still under investigation.
