{"id":196758,"date":"2026-04-14T13:08:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196758\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:08:41","slug":"fire-in-crown-heights-brooklyn-kills-2-displaces-multiple-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196758\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in Crown Heights, Brooklyn kills 2, displaces multiple families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people died, and a firefighter was injured after a fire broke out at a Crown Heights apartment building in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Flames engulfed the building just after 11 p.m. Monday on Kingston Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>An 80-year-old woman and a 59-year-old man were pulled from the burning building. They were rushed to the hospital, where they died, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A firefighter was also taken to the hospital and is stable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fire forced multiple people out of their homes, dislacing several families overnight.<\/p>\n<p>A resident named Karen described the chaos she experienced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I open my door, and my hallway is filled with smoke. I realize my god, there&#8217;s a fire. So I grabbed my keys and tried to run out. I met some firefighters in the hallway. They were knocking on the door to alert people to get out.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She said she saw two people being rushed out with responders &#8220;pumping their chest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people died, and a firefighter was injured after a fire broke out at a Crown Heights apartment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,102,194,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-196758","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-crown-heights","12":"tag-fdny","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196758","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=196758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}