frigid temperatures, making a tough situation even firefighters battling a still- smoldering fire in greenport are not dealing with just temperatures but ice. diane macedo reports. christopher olganski says all of his possessions are gone. after fire tore through his its place. >> i lost everything. my passport, green card, driver's license, everything. i have only this, my clothes and the phone, no charge. >> reporter: the fire started at 10:30 last night on diamond street. >> fire quickly spread up to the second and third floors. >> reporter: it also spread to two adjacent buildings. olganski saw the fire down the block. >> i live five or six house houses down. and it was so ferocious. it was like flying. the embers were flying in the air, like 30, 40 feet above the house. it was insane. thrust into the freezing cold, some without shoes on. >> there was a family from the larger building with a child. and they brought them in because they're so coal would. they were -- cold. they were just piling into the hallway. tea. we were giving them clothes. >> reporter: the problem is not only that spi