{"id":196705,"date":"2026-04-14T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196705\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:02:37","slug":"woman-80-and-man-59-killed-in-brooklyn-apartment-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196705\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 80, and man, 59, killed in Brooklyn apartment fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 80-year-old woman and a 59-year-old man were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/12\/21\/fires-have-claimed-the-lives-of-more-than-a-dozen-elderly-nyc-residents-over-the-last-6-weeks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killed in a Brooklyn apartment fire<\/a>, authorities said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze broke out in the six-story building on Kingston Ave. near Empire Blvd. in Crown Height about 11 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, pulled from a third-floor apartment, were rushed by medics to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/kings-county\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">King County Hospital<\/a> but could not be saved, police said. Their names were not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>One firefighter was taken to the hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the blaze is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 80-year-old woman and a 59-year-old man were killed in a Brooklyn apartment fire, authorities said Tuesday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196706,"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":{"0":"post-196705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-city","12":"tag-county","13":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-county","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-crime","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196705","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=196705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}