{"id":224150,"date":"2026-05-08T01:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224150\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:24:31","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-cat-rescued-from-sealed-fire-damaged-building-in-east-williamsburg-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224150\/","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 named Piper was rescued from a sealed-off, fire-damaged building in East Williamsburg.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">DOB issued a full vacate order for three buildings before sealing them off with a construction fence after a fourth-alarm blaze ripped through 927 Grand St. Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">While DOB crews and other city officials were at the fire site, a couple told them their cat was still inside one of the sealed buildings \u2014 931 Grand St.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials rushed inside to rescue Piper the cat, and she was reunited with her owners.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">As for 927 Grand St., officials ruled it structurally unstable and ordered a full demolition.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 cameras captured the building coming down Monday night.<\/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\">Officials say three firefighters suffered minor injuries while battling the blaze, which crews contained around four and a half hours after it broke out.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Red Cross says it&#8217;s assisting 18 adults with emergency relocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Buildings says a cat named Piper was rescued from a sealed-off, fire-damaged building in East&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-224150","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\/224150","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=224150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224150\/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=224150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}