Nearly 60 days after a fire ripped through a Red Hook warehouse, some artists have been allowed back inside to save personal items from the ruins of their studios.

Videos taken from those brief entrances allowed by the DOB into areas deemed safe enough to enter under supervision of an engineer show walls and floors are covered in black and other mold. Equipment and artwork worth thousands sit burned and flooded.

Artists in hazmat suits sift through the wreckage, hoping to salvage what little remains.

“The most disastrous things are all the memories that are destroyed, trashed,” said woodworker Christopher Bailey.

“I was able to recover my tools, a few things in drawers, and the rest, well, you see the mold on the ceiling.”

Only tenants from the least-damaged areas have been allowed back in. Others are still waiting and demanding more support from the city.

“It would be great to have a central location from the city for people to bring things they recover and figure out what's next,” said Carly Baker Rice, of the Red Hook Business Alliance, who says she is calling for a city to create a task-force to aid with the efforts.

"Because so few people have been let in, and it's for a short period of time, we are still at that emergency level, we have not shifted into recovery, we have identified an NYC EDC location in Sunset Park but there is just so much red tape," she said.

Other parts of the building, including the upper floors where the roof caved in were too badly damaged to allow anyone in.

David Benedek lost everything in his third-floor studio.

“I was expecting there to be things to salvage, but it's just — it's all gone,” he said, reacting to a photo taken by Bailey that shows the ceiling and floor totally cleared out.

"I would have wanted to at least try to save some tools," he said.

Tenants and the Red Hook Business Alliance are calling for a mayoral task force to manage recovery and provide safe cleanup options.

“Absolutely nobody is going to take black mold. It's incredibly dangerous,” Bailey said adding that he is resigned to little help from the city “I understand the city will not provide help for that.”

He says he'd like to see the city help make sure insurance pays but says he doesn't think the kid of recovery necessary to help others stage equipment is feasible.

Benedek disagrees.

"Just a central place to take it, decontaminate it from the city, that would be good,” added Benedek. Thursday also saw a fundraiser in the area where impacted artists sold their work to raise funds for various GoFundMe's to help them get back into newer spaces.

News 12 was told nearly 60 days out, no insurance payments have gone out.

Emergency repair operations remain ongoing at the building, and DOB personnel have been on site to monitor this work to ensure safe conditions for the site and surrounding properties.