A three-alarm fire at a Brooklyn yeshiva yesterday may have started on a hut-like structure set up on a terrace last fall for a Jewish holiday but never taken down, officials said.
A thatched hut called a sukkah was on a third-floor balcony of the five-story school at the Sanz Klausenburg Yeshiva at 50th Street and 14th Avenue in Borough Park.
It was set up for the 2006 Sukkot holiday – an autumn celebration where Jewish families eat outdoors in the sukkahs. The source said people continued to use the hut for shade.