{"id":134763,"date":"2026-02-16T01:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/134763\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T01:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:23:28","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-fire-tears-through-home-in-midwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/134763\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Fire tears through home in Midwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire tore through a home in Midwood Sunday afternoon, leaving the structure heavily damaged and the community shaken.<\/p>\n<p>FDNY says crews responded to the call at 1:16 p.m. Video captured by a nearby resident shows bright orange flames engulfing the home, with thick smoke pouring from the entrance as firefighters rushed inside.<\/p>\n<p>Battalion Chief James Amsterdam says crews initially encountered a frozen hydrant, causing a brief delay before another engine relayed water to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported. Battalion Chief James Amsterdam says the fire appears to have started in a basement kitchen area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire tore through a home in Midwood Sunday afternoon, leaving the structure heavily damaged and the community&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,545,544,1978,6633,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-134763","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-fire","12":"tag-fires","13":"tag-house-fire","14":"tag-midwood","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134763","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=134763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}