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One person was injured during a two-alarm fire at an Ocean Hill home on Feb. 15. <\/p>\n
Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n
One person was injured by a two-alarm fire that broke out in a vacant Ocean Hill home late on Sunday night.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
Firefighters responded to reports of fire in a boarded-up at 672 Decatur St. just before 11 p.m. on Feb. 15, according to the FDNY.\n<\/p>\n
Crews from Engine Company 233 and Ladder Company 176 were met with heavy smoke and flames and quickly triggered a second alarm as the fire began to spread to the cockloft area between the building\u2019s top floor and roof and threatened the attached home next door.<\/p>\n
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A parked car blocked access to the nearest hydrant. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n
More than 100 firefighters worked to battle the blaze, and were forced to run a hose line over the roof of a car parked in front of a nearby hydrant. The blaze was brought under control just over an hour later, at 12:30 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One civilian suffered moderate injuries, per the FDNY, and was taken by ambulance to Interfaith Medical Center.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
672 Van Siclen Ave. has been under a full vacate order since a fire in 2013, city records show.<\/a>\u00a0Department of Buildings inspectors noted at that time that the building had been illegally converted into a transitional housing structure with 28 beds.<\/p>\n In 2019, the city slapped the building owner \u2014 a Puerto-Rico based company \u2014 with a $24,000 fine after discovering that the home was occupied by at least six people, in violation of the years-old vacate order. In recent years, neighbors have complained that people were living in the derelict home, records show.\u00a0<\/p>\n The FDNY requested structural inspections of 672 Van Siclen Ave. and a neighboring building that may have been impacted by the fire, per the Department of Buildings portal.<\/p>\n Brooklyn has seen a swath of residential fires over the last several weeks \u2014 six unrelated fires broke out in local homes last weekend<\/a>, and another blaze in an allegedly illegally-converted home in East New York displaced<\/a> 12 people on Feb. 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person was injured during a two-alarm fire at an Ocean Hill home on Feb. 15. Photo by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,2823,194,4246,1978,2911,44500,9,24,12,370,63,57497,57498,646,7543,8555,29031,8993],"class_list":{"0":"post-135342","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-department-of-buildings","12":"tag-fdny","13":"tag-fire-hydrant","14":"tag-house-fire","15":"tag-injury","16":"tag-interfaith-medical-center","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-newsletter","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-ocean-hill","23":"tag-parked-car","24":"tag-police-and-fire","25":"tag-residential-fire","26":"tag-snow","27":"tag-vacate-order","28":"tag-winter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135342","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=135342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/DSC_4458.jpg\")
Firefighters battled a two alarm fire during a snowstorm at 670 and 672 Decatur Street on Feb 16, 2026.<\/p>\n