{"id":117329,"date":"2026-01-30T12:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/117329\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:49:01","slug":"81-year-old-woman-killed-in-brooklyn-apartment-fire-several-others-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/117329\/","title":{"rendered":"81-year-old woman killed in Brooklyn apartment fire, several others injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An 81-year-old woman died in an apartment fire in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens section of Brooklyn early Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire broke out in her apartment on Winthrop Street just before 12:55 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters found the victim dead in her fourth-floor apartment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several others were treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters say they found a cluttered apartment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>* <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/brooklyn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:More Brooklyn news;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">More Brooklyn news<\/a><br \/>* <a href=\"https:\/\/7ny.tv\/submitnewstip\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Send us a news tip;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Send us a news tip<\/a><br \/>* <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Download the abc7NY app for breaking news alerts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Download the abc7NY app for breaking news alerts<\/a> <br \/>*<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCrlIS7z20CnVaCrMvdkig_g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Follow us on YouTube;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> Follow us on YouTube<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Submit a tip or story idea to Eyewitness News<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Have a breaking news tip or an idea for a story we should cover? Send it to Eyewitness News using the form below. If attaching a video or photo, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/image-video-solicitation-and-rights-terms-of-use\/5101040\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:terms of use apply.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">terms of use apply.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 81-year-old woman died in an apartment fire in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens section of Brooklyn early Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[9377,98,100,99,51787,9,24,63,7127,51788],"class_list":["post-117329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-apartment-fire","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-cluttered-apartment","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-prospect-lefferts-gardens","tag-winthrop-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117329","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=117329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}