{"id":184715,"date":"2026-04-03T18:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184715\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T18:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:15:09","slug":"dual-early-morning-fires-break-out-within-minutes-in-east-new-york-fdny-responds-brooklyn-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184715\/","title":{"rendered":"Dual early morning fires break out within minutes in East New York, FDNY responds \u2022 Brooklyn Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_1420.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"East New York Fire\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters investigate two early morning fires in East New York at 814 Belmont Avenue and 510 Hegeman Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Two early-morning fires in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/category\/neighborhoods\/east-new-york\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East New York<\/a> prompted a significant response from the FDNY on Friday, as crews battled separate blazes just blocks apart within half an hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first fire was reported at 7:50 a.m. on Belmont Avenue between Shepherd Avenue and Berriman Street, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/fdny\/index.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FDNY<\/a> officials. Firefighters arrived to find a blaze on the second floor of a two-story multiple dwelling. A total of 21 units and 79 fire and EMS personnel responded to the scene, bringing the fire under control by 8:20 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-240904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_1415.jpg\" alt=\"East New York Fire\" width=\"646\" height=\"430\"  \/>No injuries were reported at each East New York fire.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 35 minutes later, at 8:25 a.m., a second call came in for Hegeman Avenue between Georgia Avenue and Sheffield Avenue. Units responded to a fire on the first floor of another two-story multiple dwelling. The FDNY again deployed 21 units and 79 personnel to the scene, containing the fire by 8:52 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-240903\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_1412.jpg\" alt=\"East New York fire\" width=\"677\" height=\"451\"  \/>FDNY sent 21 units and 79 personnel to each scene.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported in either incident. Fire Marshals are investigating the cause of both fires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters investigate two early morning fires in East New York at 814 Belmont Avenue and 510 Hegeman Avenue.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[55650,74280,99,8372,1169,194,9917,74281,9,54,11,10,12,370,7543],"class_list":{"0":"post-184715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-breaking-news-nyc","9":"tag-brooklyn-fires","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-east-new-york","12":"tag-emergency-response","13":"tag-fdny","14":"tag-fire-investigation","15":"tag-house-fire-brooklyn","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city-news","18":"tag-new-york-headlines","19":"tag-new-york-news","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-newsletter","22":"tag-residential-fire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184715","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=184715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}