{"id":224015,"date":"2026-05-07T23:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224015\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:31:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-cat-rescued-from-sealed-fire-damaged-building-in-east-williamsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224015\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Cat Rescued From Sealed Fire Damaged Building In East Williamsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Department of Buildings says a cat was rescued from a sealed-off, fire-damaged building in East Williamsburg.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">DOB and other city agencies were at 927 Grand St. the day after a third-alarm blaze tore through the building. Inspectors found that the fire damaged two neighboring buildings located at 931 and 933 Grand St.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">DOB says it issued full vacate orders for all three buildings.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say 927 Grand St. suffered a rear wall collapse during the fire Sunday night, which left three firefighters injured. DOB inspectors ruled the building structurally unstable and ordered a full demolition.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/3-firefighters-hurt-after-fire-tears-through-east-williamsburg-building-partial-collapse-reported\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEE PREVIOUS COVERAGE<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">DOB issued an immediate emergency declaration to seal all three buildings with a construction fence to keep the public out of harm&#8217;s way.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The next day, DOB says its forensic engineers returned to the site to perform additional inspections of the buildings. A couple who lived at 931 Grand St. told them their cat was still inside the sealed building.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials rushed inside to rescue the cat and it was reunited with its owners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Buildings says a cat was rescued from a sealed-off, fire-damaged building in East Williamsburg. DOB&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-224015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224015","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=224015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}