Four people were displaced after a two-alarm fire tore through a two-story building next to a gas station in Bay Ridge on Saturday afternoon, officials said.<\/p>\n
The fire broke out around 1 p.m. inside a ground-floor deli, according to fire officials at the scene. Flames damaged the store and several apartments above it, forcing residents to evacuate.<\/p>\n
FDNY officials said they believe the fire began in the back of the deli.<\/p>\n
The building sits just steps from a nearby gas station, raising concerns for residents and crews. Firefighters were able to knock down the flames before they spread to the station.<\/p>\n
People in the area told News 12 they smelled gas before seeing smoke, but initially thought it was coming from the gas station.<\/p>\n
\u201cI smelled the smoke, I smelled the gas. Then I saw the smoke coming out from right there. I ran out in the hallway,\u201d one witness said.<\/p>\n
Apartments above the store showed visible fire and smoke damage, including broken glass and water-soaked floors.<\/p>\n
Officials say that no one was hurt in the fire.<\/p>\n
FDNY and Department of Buildings crews remained on scene into the evening, inspecting the structure. Officials said they are assessing whether the building is at risk of collapse.<\/p>\n
National Grid crews were also at the site drilling into the ground to check gas lines as a precaution.<\/p>\n
It is not yet known what caused the blaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people were displaced after a two-alarm fire tore through a two-story building next to a gas station…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-225970","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\/225970","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=225970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}