{"id":141039,"date":"2026-02-21T15:43:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141039\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T15:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:43:35","slug":"three-alarm-brooklyn-apartment-fire-leaves-five-people-hospitalized-fdny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141039\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-alarm Brooklyn apartment fire leaves five people hospitalized: FDNY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brooklyn-fire-lloyd-mitchell-022122026-2.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"A firefighter is covered in soot and ash after operating at a three alarm fire in Brooklyn on Feb. 20, 2026.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Three-alarm Brooklyn apartment fire leaves five people hospitalized: FDNY 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A firefighter is covered in soot and ash after operating at a three alarm fire in Brooklyn on Feb. 20, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nyc.gov\/fdny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Firefighters<\/a> rescued multiple people during a three-alarm fire in <a href=\"http:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> on Friday night that left five victims hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze ignited inside 3322 Church Ave., a storefront with several apartments above, in East Flatbush at about 10:30 p.m. on Feb. 20.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137833138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brooklyn-fire-lloyd-mitchell-022122026-4.jpg\" alt=\"firefighters at scene of brooklyn fire\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"Three-alarm Brooklyn apartment fire leaves five people hospitalized: FDNY 2\"  \/>The blaze ignited inside 3322 Church Ave., a storefront with several apartments above, in East Flatbush at about 10:30 p.m. on Feb. 20.\n<\/p>\n<p>The first firefighters to arrive on the scene encountered heavy fire inside a third-floor apartment that briefly extended through the roof.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just stepped out of my apartment to run to the corner store, and I saw bright orange flames shooting from the roof and ceiling,\u201d one eyewitness said.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137833139\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brooklyn-fire-lloyd-mitchell-022122026-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"783\" title=\"Three-alarm Brooklyn apartment fire leaves five people hospitalized: FDNY 3\"  \/>Firefighters rescued multiple people during a three-alarm fire in Brooklyn on Friday night that left five victims hospitalized.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell\n<\/p>\n<p>More than 170 firefighters responded to the blaze. Firefighters used an aggressive interior attack to knock down the main body of fire, which was brought under control just before midnight.<\/p>\n<p>All five residents injured in the blaze were taken to local hospitals in stable condition.\n<\/p>\n<p>FDNY marshals are now investigating the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A firefighter is covered in soot and ash after operating at a three alarm fire in Brooklyn on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[9377,98,21357,100,99,783,12398,1169,194,59512,9917,27842,59513,9,24,54,63,59514,59515,59516,59517],"class_list":{"0":"post-141039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-apartment-fire","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-fire","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-church-avenue","14":"tag-east-flatbush","15":"tag-emergency-response","16":"tag-fdny","17":"tag-fdny-marshals","18":"tag-fire-investigation","19":"tag-firefighter-rescue","20":"tag-five-hospitalized","21":"tag-new-york","22":"tag-new-york-city","23":"tag-new-york-city-news","24":"tag-nyc","25":"tag-residential-blaze","26":"tag-roof-fire","27":"tag-storefront-building","28":"tag-three-alarm-blaze"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141039","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=141039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}