BROOKLYN, NY \u2014 Two people were killed and a firefighter injured after flames ripped through a Crown Heights apartment building Monday night, officials said.<\/p>\n
The fire was first reported around 11 p.m. at 446 Kingston Avenue, a six-story building between Empire Boulevard and Lefferts Avenue, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
Firefighters raced to the scene after flames broke out on the third floor of the building, officials said. <\/p>\n
An 80-year-old woman and a 59-year-old man were pulled from the building and taken to Kings County Hospital, where they were later pronounced dead. <\/p>\n
One firefighter was also hospitalized in stable condition after inhaling smoke, officials said. <\/p>\n
The fire has since been extinguished, though several residents were evacuated from the building, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire is currently under investigation by the FDNY fire marshal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN, NY \u2014 Two people were killed and a firefighter injured after flames ripped through a Crown Heights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-196892","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-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196892","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=196892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}