East Flatbush scrapyard goes up in flames

Another scrapyard on an infamous East Flatbush block went up in flames on Monday night.Firefighters responded to a junkyard fire at 5811 Preston Court shortly after 10 p.m. on Oct. 12, per the FDNY, and were met with smoke and flames rising behind a tall metal wall. They were forced to cut through the wall to get into an adjacent lot, where they pulled in tower ladders to shoot water into the flaming junkyard. More than 140 firefighters fought the flames for nearly two hours, and finally ma