{"id":116266,"date":"2026-01-29T12:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/116266\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:53:10","slug":"person-killed-in-brooklyn-apartment-fire-fdny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/116266\/","title":{"rendered":"Person killed in Brooklyn apartment fire: FDNY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) \u2013 A person was killed when a Brooklyn apartment caught fire on Thursday, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire officials said the blaze broke out on Ocean Avenue around 2 a.m. More than 70 firefighters and EMS personnel responded to the scene, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:More Local News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> More Local News <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire officials said the victim was pronounced dead at the scene. The fire was under control by 3:45 a.m., according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The American Red Cross is providing three adults with temporary lodging and financial assistance. Other tenants of the building were able to move in with family, according to the organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire officials are investigating the cause of the blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erin Pflaumer is a digital content producer from Long Island who has covered both local and national news since 2018. She joined PIX11 in 2023. See more of her work <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/author\/erin-pflaumer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) \u2013 A person was killed when a Brooklyn apartment caught fire on Thursday, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,194,12069,9,24,63,51442],"class_list":{"0":"post-116266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-fdny","12":"tag-fire-officials","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-the-american-red-cross"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}