{"id":160588,"date":"2026-03-11T18:21:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160588\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:21:40","slug":"huge-5-alarm-fire-tears-through-brooklyn-warehouse-2-firefighters-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160588\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge 5-alarm fire tears through Brooklyn warehouse; 2 firefighters hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two firefighters were hurt as a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FDNY\/status\/2031728901253185764?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">raging five-alarm fire destroyed a Brooklyn warehouse<\/a> and seriously damaged two other buildings early Wednesday, the FDNY said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out inside Universal Food Distributors on 53rd St. near First Ave. in Sunset Park around 12:15 a.m., officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon our arrival, we had heavy, heavy fire throughout a factory-type building, which extended to two other buildings,\u201d FDNY Chief of Operations Kevin Woods <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FDNY\/status\/2031675118347292906?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">said at the scene<\/a>. \u201cWe immediately went to an exterior operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Multiple tower ladders were used to shoot water onto the fire. The FDNY also utilized two fire boats, which approached the waterfront factory from Bay Ridge Channel, Woods said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The fire broke out inside Universal Food Distributors on 53rd St. near 1st Ave. in Sunset Park at about 12:15 a.m., officials said. (FDNY \/ X)\" width=\"1536\" height=\"793\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HDImqmfbIAAuBsJ.jpeg\" data-attachment-id=\"8736798\" \/>The fire broke out inside Universal Food Distributors on 53rd St. near First Ave. in Sunset Park at about 12:15 a.m., officials said. (FDNY \/ X)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt one point, we were using approximately 15,000 gallons of water a minute (from the boats),\u201d Woods said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was so massive that the warehouse\u2019s roof and interiors collapsed, Woods said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe weren\u2019t even able to get in there, there was that much fire,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Two firefighters suffered minor injuries \u2014 mostly from smoke inhalation \u2014 as they battled the blaze from the outside and were taken to an area hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>More than 270 firefighters and EMS personnel responded to combat the inferno.<\/p>\n<p>By sunrise most of the fire was out, but small pockets of fire could still be found in the adjoining buildings, Woods said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to have our resources here for quite some time,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re bringing units in to relieve the other units.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FDNY fire marshals will determine what sparked the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Mamdani on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYCMayor\/status\/2031745210246390063?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">credited the FDNY\u2019s quick response<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m grateful to the brave firefighters and first responders who rushed toward danger to battle last night\u2019s 5-alarm fire,\u201d the mayor said on X. \u201cTheir courage, skill, and commitment keep our communities safe. Thank you @FDNY for everything you do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two firefighters were hurt as a raging five-alarm fire destroyed a Brooklyn warehouse and seriously damaged two other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-160588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160588","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=160588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}