{"id":189419,"date":"2026-04-08T11:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189419\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:08:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-basement-fire-tears-through-borough-park-building-several-firefighters-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189419\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Basement fire tears through Borough Park building; several firefighters hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire that started in the basement of a Borough Park building spread to the first floor and brought a large emergency response Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>It happened just before 7:45 p.m. at 6007 Fort Hamilton Parkway.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials say the flames began in the basement and quickly moved up into the first floor of the three-story building. The building has businesses on the lower levels with people living above.<\/p>\n<p>Video from the scene shows thick smoke pouring out of the building and into the air, visible from blocks away.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of firefighters and EMS crews responded and worked for hours to get <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/inferno-erupts-inside-basement-in-borough-park-building\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the fire<\/a> under control. The fire was brought under control just after 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials say six firefighters were checked out at the scene, and one was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is still under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire that started in the basement of a Borough Park building spread to the first floor and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[7544,98,100,99,543,194,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-189419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-borough-park","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-building-fire","13":"tag-fdny","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189419","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=189419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}