Firefighters battling a blaze Sunday inside the NYCHA Mill Brook Houses were met with complications after discovering lithium-ion batteries in one of the apartments.<\/p>\n
The fire began around 1 p.m. on the fifth floor, firefighters told News 12. More than 100 firefighters responded, and the flames left shattered windows and neighbors concerned about safety.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was coming down the stairs, there was white smoke on the floor. There was white smoke in the stairwell,\u201d said one neighbor, Tiffany.<\/p>\n
Residents were forced to wait outside as firefighters worked to contain the blaze and elevators stopped running.<\/p>\n
On the fifth floor, three e-bikes and a motorcycle were seen parked in the hallway. A man who removed one of the e-bikes from the building declined to answer questions about the cause of the fire or any connection to it.<\/p>\n
The FDNY said no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters battling a blaze Sunday inside the NYCHA Mill Brook Houses were met with complications after discovering lithium-ion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[7352,23268,9377,128,543,15309,1159,194,545,9917,195,34043,745,6910,26081,3796,9,24,63,305,9952,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-157283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-apartment-building","9":"tag-apartment-complex","10":"tag-apartment-fire","11":"tag-bronx","12":"tag-building-fire","13":"tag-damages","14":"tag-e-bikes","15":"tag-fdny","16":"tag-fire","17":"tag-fire-investigation","18":"tag-firefighters","19":"tag-hazmat","20":"tag-investigation","21":"tag-lithium-ion-battery","22":"tag-lithium-ion-battery-fire","23":"tag-mott-haven","24":"tag-new-york","25":"tag-new-york-city","26":"tag-nyc","27":"tag-nycha","28":"tag-nycha-complex","29":"tag-the-bronx","30":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","31":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157283","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=157283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}