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by ROB HART
Flames roared for more than an hour last night from the tops of two abandoned buildings on the waterfront in Port Richmond, drawing a massive Fire Department response.
The two-alarm blaze on Richmond Terrace, between Heberton and Jewett avenues, broke out at 9:35 p.m., and was brought under control at 10:50 p.m.
There were no injuries reported at the scene.
Firefighters blasted jets of water from the tops of tower ladders into the dilapidated, graffiti-scarred buildings in an attempt to avoid sending anyone inside the unstable structures. The pressure from the water buckled the walls of one building and tore shingles off both roofs.
More than 50 people crowded the narrow street, where the buildings were obscured by darkness and billowing smoke. FDNY Special Operations Command later put up floodlights to illuminate the area.
A fire official at the scene pointed out a spray-painted green box with an "x" through it on one of the building's fronts, put there by the FDNY as a sign that the inside structure was weak.
Responding firefighters used the "surround and drown" method, in which the blaze is extinguished by soaking the building from the outside.
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