Inmates evacuated after fire is deliberately started at Manhattan jail 'The Tombs'... where Ghislaine Maxwell is being held

Maxine Shen
Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 15 Aug 2020 13:15 UTC

A fire broke out at New York City's Manhattan Detention Complex Friday night, injuring a corrections officer and a firefighter.

The blaze was started deliberately Friday night at about 8.30pm on the ninth floor of the jail - nicknamed 'The Tombs' - in Lower Manhattan.

FDNY Deputy Chief Joseph Schiralli said that inmates had started a trash fire and that two or three cells had been involved, ABC 7 reported.

Cells in the jail were said to have been occupied, but that corrections officers were able to evacuate the inmates housed on the ninth floor of the 18-story building.

The New York Post reported that inmates were put onto two NYPD Corrections buses and that the fire was put out at 9.45pm.

A corrections officer who had an asthma attack was reported to have suffered a minor injury and taken to a local hospital.

Video shared on the Citizen App showed a person in uniform being taken away on a stretcher.

A firefighter was also reported to have sustained a minor injury during the incident.

The Manhattan Detention Complex is one of four municipal jail buildings - all known as The Tombs - which have stood on the site over the years since 1838.

Comment: ...and it's where Epstein madam Ghislaine Maxwell is being held.

Was this a jailbreak disguised as a fire?

We know it's generally inappropriate to speculate, but we're talking here about the jail where the 'suicide' of the most high-profile inmate in the United States took place last summer...