A Brooklyn lumberyard burns

Marley Building Supply in Brooklyn, N.Y., erupted into flames over the weekend, and local news accounts described plumes of smoke that reached hundreds of feet into the cold night sky. 

According to the New York Daily News article, some 200 firefighters fought the blaze from midnight to the early moring of Jan. 4. No one was hurt in the blaze. The cause of the fire remains under investigation, according to the report.