{"id":117254,"date":"2026-01-30T11:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/117254\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:18:20","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-81-year-old-woman-dies-in-prospect-lefferts-gardens-apartment-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/117254\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | 81-year-old woman dies in Prospect Lefferts Gardens apartment fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An early morning apartment fire killed an 81-year-old woman in Prospect Lefferts Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out just before 1 a.m. Friday on the fourth floor of a residential building at 35 Winthrop St.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters battled the blaze in below-freezing conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the unidentified woman was found unconscious and unresponsive inside the apartment and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A neighbor said the apartment where the fire started was known to have clutter inside. He said he noticed what he described as an electrical smoke smell and called 911.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI shut my door immediately, and within ten minutes when I opened it, I couldn\u2019t see out my door,\u201d the neighbor said. \u201cOther neighbors on the sixth floor said the same thing. There was a lot of adrenaline, trying to stay calm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A medical examiner will determine the woman\u2019s cause of death. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An early morning apartment fire killed an 81-year-old woman in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. The fire broke out just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,7403,7404,545,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-117254","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-deadly-fire","12":"tag-fatal-fire","13":"tag-fire","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117254","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=117254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}