A fire in a 10th floor apartment at 201 West 72nd street forced a partial evacuation of the building and kept 20 units of firefighters busy for more than 3 hours on Thursday night.
No one was reported injured in the blaze, which was first called in at 5:34 p.m., but about 78 firefighters were called to the scene and traffic was blocked on part of 72nd between Broadway and West End. A resident told us that there was lots of smoke around the 10th and 11th floors.
The fire was declared under control as of 9:04 p.m.
