A late-night fire tore through a third-floor apartment on Kingston Avenue in East Flatbush, killing a mother and son, who neighbors say lived there for years.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Police identified the victims as Angela Griffith and her son Wayne Griffith
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The FDNY says the fire started with a power strip
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So far this year, the FDNY says 29 people have died in fires across the city, which is up from 24 at this time last year<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw two people being ushered out on the bed and they were pumping them, their chests,\u201d a neighbor said.<\/p>\n
Police identified the victims as Angela Griffith and her son Wayne Griffith, who neighbors say are originally from Barbados.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very sad … I stayed up all night because I couldn\u2019t go to sleep,\u201d neighbor Edwina Hunter said.<\/p>\n
FDNY says it was all hands on the blaze around 11 p.m. Monday, battling flames in the building’s rear and heavy smoke inside.<\/p>\n
\u201cI opened my door and my hallway [was] filled with smoke. So then I realized, my God, there\u2019s a fire,\u201d a neighbor said.<\/p>\n
According to the FDNY, the fire started with a power strip, and inside the apartment, clutter made it hard for the residents to get out and harder for firefighters searching in blackout conditions.<\/p>\n
One firefighter who suffered smoke inhalation is expected to be OK, officials said.<\/p>\n
And as the fire spread, some residents say they were never alerted, instead only realizing what was happening once smoke reached them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I opened the door, and I looked down the hallway, I saw the smoke there, right? And it was smelling, and it was very strong,\u201d neighbor Dexter Thompson said.<\/p>\n
So far this year, the FDNY says 29 people have died in fires across the city, up from 24 at this time last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A late-night fire tore through a third-floor apartment on Kingston Avenue in East Flatbush, killing a mother and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[387,25,98,100,99,388,9,24,12,63,308,27],"class_list":["post-197592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-louis-finley","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197592","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=197592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}