The FDNY says a fire broke out around 5:30 a.m. Monday at Taqwa Grocery and Meat Market on Fulton Street. <\/p>\n
Flames quickly spread to the two apartments above the store, causing extensive damage to the building\u2019s roof and structure.<\/p>\n
The Red Cross is assisting roughly a dozen people who lived in those apartments. No residents were injured, although one firefighter was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, the FDNY said.<\/p>\n
Neighbors say the loss is a blow to the community, especially during the final days of Ramadan.<\/p>\n
Neighbors told News 12 that some residents who live above the store were already awake preparing food in observance to Ramadan, before sunrise when the fire broke out. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf it happened when they were sleeping, it could be worse,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Community members say the store was a go-to spot for groceries and halal meat in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Fire marshals spent hours at the scene investigating what caused the fire. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FDNY says a fire broke out around 5:30 a.m. Monday at Taqwa Grocery and Meat Market on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4986,98,100,99,543,19985,194,545,544,21095,9220,9,24,63,62359],"class_list":["post-165491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-bed-stuy","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-building-fire","tag-business-fire","tag-fdny","tag-fire","tag-fires","tag-grocery","tag-grocery-store","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-store-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165491","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=165491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}